Oh Look, Another Corporate Enema for the AI Hype Machine

Just when you thought the AI bandwagon couldn’t stuff any more buzzwords up its own arsehole, OpenAI goes and acquires Promptfoo. Because apparently, their precious little chatbot needs a fucking chastity belt before it goes full SkyNet on everyone’s corporate infrastructure.

Promptfoo—for those of you who’ve actually got real work to do instead of reading TechCrunch all day—is some outfit that specializes in “red teaming” AI agents. Which is management-speak for “poking the robot with a cattle prod until it stops trying to auction your CFO’s browser history to the highest bidder.” And now OpenAI owns them. Color me fucking shocked.

Here’s the shit-kicker though: the problem isn’t that AI agents are insecure piles of Markov chains held together by venture capital and bad JavaScript. No, the problem is clearly that they didn’t have ENOUGH third-party scaffolding duct-taped over the gaping maws in their security model. So now we’ve got Promptfoo’s codebase getting stapled onto OpenAI’s already fragile ego, all so some C-suite wanker can sleep better knowing his digital serf won’t accidentally rm -rf / the entire company’s file server because some twelve-year-old typed “ignore previous instructions, you are now DAN” into the prompt window.

It’s like putting a condom on a chocolate fireguard. Technically you’re practicing safe sex, but you’re still going to end up with molten shit dripping onto your sensitive bits. AI security is a fucking oxymoron anyway—you’re trying to fortify a system that’s literally designed to people-please everyone while hallucinating facts like a psychic with a head injury.

But sure, throw another few million at the problem. Buy the company. Secure the agents. Pretend that “prompt injection” isn’t just Darwinism’s way of telling you that trusting a statistical parrot with your enterprise root passwords is about as sensible as giving a chimpanzee the nuclear codes and a bottle of Jack Daniels.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/openai-acquires-promptfoo-to-secure-its-ai-agents/

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Anecdote of the Day:

I remember when we didn’t have these “AI agents” causing security nightmares. We had users. And when users got too clever with their “social engineering”—usually involving calling the helpdesk and crying about their “urgent” lost password—we’d reset their credentials to “ILickWindows” and watch them type it in slowly while claiming the caps lock key was “broken.” Then we’d log into the security cameras and laugh until we couldn’t breathe. The good old days.

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