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2026-08-13
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Paper Walkthrough: MerchantBench — Can an LLM Agent Run an Online Store for a Year? Why It Earns Only 27.3% of What Humans Do
A close read of MerchantBench, which measures the long-term coherence of LLM agents across a 365-day simulation of running an online store. Why the best configuration reaches only 27.3% of the average human's final net worth, read through three failure patterns: decaying activity, premature withdrawal, and policies frozen against the evidence.