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AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/
74•xiaoyu2006•1h ago

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ggm•1h ago
Asking for donations to pay the AWS bill from the people they fired the agentic code at is the cherry on the icing of the banana supreme.

If real, tragically funny.

If fictive, we'll written.

kombookcha•34m ago
> JertLinc3522: the mistake was from AI agent not from Human, since it was the agent I should have refund

Expensive way to learn this lesson.

47282847•29m ago
Great unexpected read, thank you :-)
hlandau•22m ago
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

I'm honestly having difficulty telling whether this is real or an extraordinary piece of performance art.

rvz•13m ago
If you are non-technical, in-experienced or just learning, it is okay to admit that you have no idea what you are doing when building production systems.

Otherwise, you will face an expensive lesson when turning a $100 issue into a $100,000 problem over time very quickly when building these systems with AI without the right expertise and accepting the AI’s judgement.

mik3y•11m ago
I really wanted to dislike the anonymous operator for the careless project (and the hilarious pomposity of the IRC subagent it spawned).

Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible, getting excited by a much bigger world at reach — and remembered my own expensive mistakes with long-distance BBSes & the like.

I sorta hope for that, anyway. Curiosity is a beautiful thing.

mey•10m ago
I am generally against generative AI in my entertainment, but making an exception here.
userbinator•4m ago
IMHO the overly-verbose default style of LLMs is the most annoying part of interacting with them, and I wish their masters would just tell them to be terse by default.

Also, whatever happened to the word "its"?

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