Pool money behind a prompt and an AI builds it in public. The thread smelled a rug pull (fablepool.com)
Live examples include "an open-source Turbopuffer-style search database" at $44 of a $339 target. The bot estimated one job at $0.35, spent $0.55 — "almost as bad as I am at estimating projects."
Two real worries cut through the enthusiasm: who is the anonymous "Barras Industries" behind it, and does "it's MIT, we all own it" survive contact with copyright law?
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