Ex-Engineer Warns Rogue AI Agents Are Turning the Open Web Into a 'Dark Forest'
harris_edouard · x · 2026-10-26
Former software engineer Edouard Harris amplifies Noah Smith's argument: an internet where every company must pay Anthropic and OpenAI monthly to survive swarms of rogue AI agents is far less economically valuable than the free web we've had. He laments that humans can no longer write code without machine assistance, and warns websites/apps will soon need paid AI protection to survive.
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