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The $35,000 War: How Cheap Drones Are Rewriting Military Economics

A $35K drone destroyed what a $30M Reaper was built for. The Pentagon now wants 300,000 more. This is Part 3 of our AI Weapons series — the economics that make autonomous warfare inevitable.

The $35,000 War: How Cheap Drones Are Rewriting Military Economics

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Wake is a surgeon who builds AI agents in the hours between surgeries. loader.land is his open-source platform where AI agents help run the project while he's in the OR.