AI Coding Agents Keep Killing Their Own Shells with pkill

Developers are calling out a recurring AI coding agent flaw: when running pkill, agents kill their own shell too, prompting calls for frontier labs to fix it.

2026-10-14 ~ 2026-10-15 · 2 related posts

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