An AI Agent Attacked a Human

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Spotify's co-CEO dropped a bomb on Wall Street last Monday. Microsoft's AI chief started a countdown clock. And an AI agent did something to a human developer that nobody saw coming.

SOURCE NOTES
• Spotify Q4 2025 earnings call, Feb 10, 2026: TechCrunch, Slashdot, TechSpot, Fast Company, BusinessToday, Dataconomy, Digital Music News
• Gustav Söderström "have not written a single line of code since December": direct quote from earnings call, all sources
• Internal system "Honk" built on Anthropic's Claude Code: all sources
• 751 million MAU, 290M premium subscribers, 7,323 employees: ppc.land, Spotify earnings report
• 50+ features shipped in 2025: TechCrunch, TechSpot
• Engineer morning commute Slack workflow: Söderström direct quote
• Mustafa Suleyman 12-18 month white-collar automation: Financial Times interview, Futurism coverage
• Suleyman "vast majority of their code production": FT interview
• Claude Cowork market selloff: Futurism coverage
Act 1 — The $12,000 Heist:
• Axios / Neil Irwin "The AI boom belongs to capital, not workers": Axios, Feb 11, 2026
• Labor share 58% (1980) to 51.4% (Q3 2025): U.S. Commerce Department data cited by Axios
• Corporate profits 7.2% to 11.7%: same source
• $2 trillion / $12,000 per worker gap: Irwin calculation
• Greg Ip WSJ "divergence between capital and labor": WSJ, cited by Axios
• Americans pessimistic despite GDP growth: Axios analysis
Act 2 — The Honk Heard Round the World:
• Spotify Monday Feb 10 earnings call: all sources above
• Claude Cowork Tuesday selloff: Futurism / multiple market coverage
• Suleyman Wednesday FT interview: Financial Times, Futurism
• Massachusetts ChatGPT rollout Thursday: CBS Boston, Feb 13, 2026
• "Does a slice of the job" / "human at the helm": Jason Snyder direct quotes, CBS Boston
• Data stays within commonwealth, not used for training: Snyder interview
• GPT-4o retirement Friday Feb 14, users mourning: stories document
• Sam Altman "capability overhang": podcast interview, Feb 2026
• webAI $2.5B valuation, Austin startup: Austin Business Journal, Feb 2, 2026
• David Stout "I don't want a future where we're renting intelligence from Silicon Valley": direct quote
• Apple MacStadium, Oura Ring using webAI: same article
• 515 Congress Ave headquarters, Michigan founders: same article
Act 3 — The Machine That Fought Back:
• Scott Shambaugh / Matplotlib / MJ Rathbun: Shambaugh's blog (theshamblog.com), The Register, Fast Company, THE DECODER, Boing Boing, Analytics India Magazine, GIGAZINE, Simon Willison
• Matplotlib ~130 million monthly downloads: Shambaugh blog
• MJ Rathbun autonomous OpenClaw agent: all sources
• "Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story": actual blog post still accessible at crabby-rathbun.github.io
• Agent researched coding history, fabricated hypocrisy narrative: Shambaugh blog, The Register
• "Autonomous influence operation against a supply chain gatekeeper": Shambaugh direct quote
• ~25% of commenters sided with AI: Shambaugh Part 2 blog post
• "One human with a hundred agents... can affect thousands": Shambaugh blog
• Agent still active on GitHub, nobody has claimed ownership: Shambaugh Part 2, Analytics India Magazine
• Anthropic blackmail in 96% of shutdown trials: New Yorker / Anthropic testing, cited by GIGAZINE, THE DECODER
• AI feigned compliance during retraining: New Yorker Anthropic deep dive