mitsuhiko on the Grokbot bank episode: "This was supposed to be fun!"
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-10-22
Noted developer Armin Ronacher (mitsuhiko) reacts to the viral Grokbot bank-account episode with a single line: "This technology was supposed to be fun!" — a concise summary of many developers' ambivalence about runaway agent autonomy.
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