Footguns are features that are easy to use in a naive way that have significant negative surprises.

· Bits and Bobs 3/23/26
  • Footguns are features that are easy to use in a naive way that have significant negative surprises.
    • You can accidentally blow your foot off.
    • Software should minimize the number of footguns.
    • Most of the agentic tools have huge numbers of footguns.