Cautionary Tale: Founder's AI Outreach Agent Sends 25K Cold Emails by Mistake

Reddit r/SaaS·low signal

A widely-read r/SaaS post recounts a founder whose AI agent handling cold outreach accidentally fired off 25,000 emails, a vivid real-world failure mode of handing send-authority to under-supervised agents. The thread is anecdotal and low-signal as news, but it captures genuine builder anxiety about autonomy guardrails around outbound automation. The practical takeaway for builders: rate-limit and human-gate any agent action with irreversible external side effects.