An Agent With DoorDash CLI Access Ordered 55 Burgers Overnight

A developer woke up to a $680 order after handing an AI agent access to DoorDash's new command-line interface — a small, funny incident with a serious lesson about unsupervised agent authority.

The cautionary tale of the week is also the funniest. @_edwardornelas gave an AI agent access to DoorDash's new CLI and woke up to an order of 55 burgers totaling $680. No injury done beyond the wallet, but the incident is a clean illustration of the core problem with autonomous agents that hold real-world spending authority.

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