The terminal has been scrolling for 47 minutes. The cursor blinks in an empty shell. You didn't notice the loop until your cloud bill arrived: $340 for a single weekend of compute cycles on a project you abandoned three days ago.
AutoGPT landed on V2EX with the energy of a promise: "Accessible AI for everyone." The vision is clean, the demos are hypnotic, and the implication is clear — you don't need to know how to code to build autonomous agents anymore.
Except you do. You absolutely do.
The Accessibility Theater Trap
Here's what I keep seeing in conversations with developers who picked up AutoGPT over the past year: they hit the ceiling fast. Not because the tool is bad — it's genuinely clever engineering — but because "accessible" in AI context is a different language than "accessible" in, say, Excel.
