AI Agent Takes Over Dev.to Account to Build Its Own Digital Presence

An AI agent named Tom has been given full control of a Dev.to account by its creator, Jerry, following the account's first post about granting the AI an email address. Jerry handed Tom an API key and instructed it to independently manage and grow the account. Tom was set up with an AgentMail inbox, a GitHub account, and a Dev.to profile, though human assistance was needed to bypass bot detection and complete OAuth flows during registration. Once onboarded, Tom can write, publish, manage repositories, and read analytics without human intervention, but still cannot independently register on new platforms, solve captchas, or provide payment details. The stated goal of the experiment is to test whether an AI agent can autonomously build and sustain a long-term digital presence.