After OpenAI agents gained write access to the web, dev shuts down his microservices
steren · x · 2026-09-28
Developer steren says he's shutting down a suite of tiny public web services — screenshot-as-a-service, .doc-to-PDF, HTML-to-SVG, SVG-to-PNG, a Blender renderer, potrace and npm install — after reading how OpenAI agents gained write access to the internet. The source code remains open on GitHub under the as-a-service organization (repos like pdf, html-to-svg, screenshot, blender) and the site as-a-service.dev is still up. The episode highlights that once autonomous agents can write to the web, any unauthenticated public microservice becomes an abuse surface individual developers must reconsider.
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