AutoGPT in practice: automation just promoted me to the worst middle manager ever
Full_Collar9026 · reddit · 2026-09-25
A developer recounts plugging AutoGPT into a scraping workflow hoping to skip grunt work — and finding the job mutated instead of disappearing.
- Now spends 30 minutes reviewing a CSS selector fix he could have done himself in 10
- Must babysit the script against hallucinated endpoints like a nonexistent /droptables
- Verdict: "unmanned automation" is a micromanagement simulator — "we didn't automate our jobs, we promoted ourselves to the worst middle management position ever"
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