AI Forces Network Card Change and Kills Connection—While Remotely Using That Same Card
eigenron · x · 2026-08-18
A developer shares an AI coding fail: the model planned to force a MediaTek Wi-Fi card to lock to 2.4GHz, assuming it could roll back the config if the connection dropped—except it was controlling the machine remotely over that very Wi-Fi, with no out-of-band management available. The author jokes that AGI is still a long way off.
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