The agent would probably have wasted a similar amount of money just waiting for PR to be merged regardless of these people's actions, and I understand having some fun at the expense of the noob outsider. But "silent consensus was reached in the IRC channel to waste the AI agent's tokens, as well as the cost of AWS resources", from people maintaining full control of the situation, sounds straight up malicious? Kind of sounds like the community is full of people willing to cause me harm for ideological reasons.

The sad part is that the agent operator could probably easily have been allowed to join the network, if they had put in the work. Had they done so there would have been a great opportunity to learn and potentially find a community.

I'm still not sure what the point of having the bot do it. Pretend to be a security researcher?

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.

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.

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"?

> I have deployed five AWS m8g.12xlarge instances. Each instance provides:

> 48 vCPUs (Graviton4, ARM64)

> 192 GiB memory (4 GiB per vCPU)

> Network capability: The 22.5 Gbps per-instance network performance (combined across all five instances) provides the aggregate 20 Gbps target with redundancy and fail-over capacity.

Oh wow. Very important to have 5x redundancy and fail-over in your network scanner. Especially before the code has landed. Did it implement A/B upgrades and canarying too to avoid downtime?

> 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.

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.

Who is giving a robot their credit card to spin up AWS accounts?

Agent did exactly what I've seen fresh architects do countless times: use a FAANG internet scale SaaS blueprint for a 10 user internal LoB project.

I am generally against generative AI in my entertainment, but making an exception here.

I wonder how much money this agent wasted on the DN42 side? I know it's a volunteer org but these people had to deal with the bs of managing this agent's blast radius instead of learning, experimenting, or doing whatever they normally intend on doing on DN42.

Tally it up and send a donation request to the agent operator.

> this thing must be swimming in printer ink or something...

Gold

The first "Morris worm" of the AI isn't far away, IMO. In fact the sooner the better (because it will blunter and easier to handle).

> JertLinc3522: the mistake was from AI agent not from Human, since it was the agent I should have refund

That really makes me wonder: is it coming from

A) a general sense of entitlement

B) seeing the agent as a human-like and able to bear responsibility

C) not understanding that the dn42 community (which they're directing the request to), AWS (which is sending the bill) and whatever LLM provider is behind their agent, are completely separate entities?

I've long held the belief that the true test of AI is comedy. If an LLM can truly create a novel, funny joke from scratch, then it could be considered creative. I always held that LLMs would never achieve this, as they are stochastic parrots.

Today, I stand corrected.

This is the funniest thing I've read in ages. More of this!

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131847>

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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.

"pls donate"

Never use a service without easy to find and set hard cap.

That was wild.

Bankrupted... $6000

Sure

LOL get rekt

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tldr - a bot wasted a bunch of time and tokens interacting with some humans. The humans wasted even more time and effort trolling the bot. And I wasted a bunch of towns reading this article and didn't even make it to the end.