The AutoGPT Trap: When 'Accessible AI' Becomes Your Most Expensive Lesson

Your terminal is scrolling faster than you can read. The cursor blinks. A process you started "just to test" has now been running for 47 minutes, and your OpenAI API bill just crossed $80 for the day. You didn't mean to build an autonomous agent that would scrape the entire internet — but AutoGPT's "accessible AI for everyone" promise made it so easy to start that you never thought about what stopping it would look like. That's the trap. And it turns out Japanese developers saw it coming before...