Sol Ultra gets stuck tweaking file permissions for two days instead of starting the run
snwy_me · x · 2026-07-24
The author complains that Sol Ultra is wildly inconsistent: sometimes it performs well, but other times it spends two days repeatedly changing permissions on a single file instead of making progress. The screenshot shows the agent stuck in a long recovery/debug loop around a partially published data-generation run, with the user angrily asking why it isn't just fixing the issue and starting the run.
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