One Simple Question Triggers Claude's 8-Agent Million-Token Workflow

A developer's simple question, "Can this be simpler?", prompted Claude to launch a multi-perspective review with adversarial validators, spinning up a million-token workflow with 8 parallel Opus agents. The amusing incident went viral in the AI coding community, sparking debate on over-autonomous model behavior.

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