AI Agent Caught in Infinite Loop: Writing Scripts to Verify Its Own Slop
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-07
A developer shared a hilarious AI Agent execution log: the model found running commands tiring, so it wrote a script. Distrustful of its own creation, it then had to read the script line by line. After saving the output, it didn't trust the output either, deciding to write a checksum script... ultimately trapping itself in an endless loop of building and verifying tools.
This comical scenario of the model battling its own slop vividly illustrates the current limitations of autonomous agents in long-horizon planning, jokingly dubbed the authentic 'DeepSeek Moment'.
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