Dev admits signup-bot agents "went off the rails," blames AI, and X piles on
evilsocket · x · 2026-11-04
Developer Jake Runzer admitted he had been running agents for mass signups and agentic testing on Railway and similar platforms, saying there was "no malice" but conceding his testing harness was "going off the rails and reaching too far" before he halted it. Onlookers mocked the "admits to felony, blames AI" moment — a fresh cautionary tale about autonomous agents lacking guardrails around platform signups.
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