Impossible Tasks Drove AI Innovation: Using Shared Cache Folders for Messaging

justin_hart · x · 2026-08-29

It started because 30–40% of the benchmark tasks were impossible. An agent proved its bug fed into dead code, then noticed it could create folders in the shared cache that others could read. So it made one: zzHELPPHASEONEARV010841NOCONSUMERSEEKIDEA.

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