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Felt like a clickbait headline to me, but there's no link back to the project. So I guess not. Definitely respect for telling an embarrassing story even if I disagree wholly with the title (both the implication that the ChatGPT mistake is to blame, and that it cost them $10k.)

Anyway I believe the product in question is https://agentgpt.reworkd.ai

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I had the same question. Everyone is talking about how this is bad for the company's reputation... but it wasn't immediately clear to me what the company is.

I also eventually landed on reworkd.ai after some googling. The blog is called "asim" and the OP's username is "asim-shrestha". That lead me to this: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reworkd They are S23, which is mention in the blog.

>AgentGPT is an autonomous AI Agent platform that empowers users to create and deploy customizable autonomous AI agents directly in the browser. Simply assign a name and goal to your AI agent, and watch as it embarks on an exciting journey to accomplish the assigned objective.

from https://docs.reworkd.ai/introduction

Whereas the blogpost clearly demonstrates that AI agents cannot be left totally "autonomous", their output might seem reasonable for those not well versed in particular domain but might have disastrous consequences.

VC bros are clearly gambling big on Linear Algebra.

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