# I taught a robot to detect Joshes

DevFeed: [I taught a robot to detect Joshes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-taught-a-robot-to-detect-joshes-32360.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://joshtronic.com/2026/08/16/taught-robot-detect-joshes/>)

Author: Josh Sherman

Published: 2026-08-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Josh Sherman](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/josh-sherman.md>)

Topics: [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Script](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/script.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [SRE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sre.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [scripts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scripts.md>)

## AI overview

A developer describes experiments to automate a web directory for people named Josh. Scripts discover relevant websites and open pull requests, while a robot reviews them and the author retains final approval.

## Source excerpt

This journey starts like most of the things I've been doing this year, as an experiment to run a website 100% unattended with an agent. Ideally this post won't go down as an epitaph in a future where robots hunted down unsuspecting humans named Josh. I'm aware of "claws" and I know I could probably just boot up Claude Code with a /goal or /loop prompt like: build and maintain an awesome website, autonomously. seriously don't freakin' bother me, like ever. you're the boss here. make the site really great, and ideally figure out how to make me a bajillionaire. loljk, but tres commas shouldn't be an afterthought. What this actually looks like: robot files a request, and I approve or reject it. It's still very permission based. The gathering of the Joshes I already phoned in a post about this back in January. I started a simple web directory for humans named Josh. As to not be exclusionary, Joshuas, Joshis, and other Josh-adjacent names are welcome. Not wanting to bother with outbound sales for this project, I got creative with some discovery efforts along the way. It's a series of scripts to seek out Josh websites, with the help of my friendly robot Igor to screen PRs and handle SRE duties during merges. Thus far, I am still the final approval on the PRs. It's a tough job, and quite frankly, I don't want to do it. Living in the future, today These experiments are all part of what I think the future is going to look like. I'm clearly living in the shared hallucination of what still feels like a smaller number of my peers. I also live in reality, where the tech still doesn't feel like it's quite there yet. My thought is, if you conduct yourself like it's 2032 and we're all being shuffled around in our hover chairs like in WALL-E, maybe it will all happen sooner. I also think the tech is fun, and watching a computer take my human words and turn them into dumb ideas I described feels like magic. The same magic I felt when I made an Atari computer spew a wall of "JOSH" acro