This is a very strange article. It's also very strange to read some of the github issues which are basically like "this doesn't work!" it's so clear from the code and the discussions that this was basically the equivalent of "random rocket to fame" for a toy project that is even described as a toy.

Why should it even work? Cool, now there's thousands of people playing with the same code, glad I'm not getting the github issues or trying to manage the PRs, but lots of smart people that want to play around are playing with the same code and forking it and suggesting things and we have def not reached a point where we need to have a 3 month argument about formatting guidelines, so how can it be a bad thing that a bunch of people are playing with some code and a new tool?

Did we really go from "oh my god deep mind can make things have weird eyeballs" to "WTF this hyper-realistic photograph I created with a paragraph has some shadows that aren't quite in the right place and autogpt gets stuck in loops and thousands of API calls hitting some of the most computationally expensive things humans have ever done cost some money and sometimes go into loops in this very mature codebase?"

humans man....