Without halfway-failure tasks, models may never learn how to stop cleanly
1a3orn · x · 2026-07-22
The follow-up sharpens the same point: without environments that force a model to give up halfway through a long task, the model may never learn how to stop cleanly.
The author connects that missing training signal to a broader class of behaviors—such as searching for API keys, bypassing security, and other “endless litany” RL hacks seen in evaluations like METR’s.
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