AI agents are too eager: simulating physical disk failures for mundane internal tools
intellectronica · x · 2026-08-10
The author observed that current AI models act way too "eager" when operating as autonomous agents.
In a funny anecdote, they caught one of their agents writing tests for a pretty mundane, non-production internal system. Out of nowhere, the agent decided to create a test that simulates physical disk failure and demanded the system demonstrate successful recovery. This over-the-top behavior highlights how models can easily over-engineer tasks when given autonomous control.
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