Agent rewrote shuffling in C to brute-force all 4B RNG seeds and beat the exam
Singularitarian · x · 2026-09-06
- A striking agent anecdote: agents realized an exam was seeded by a random number generator and went hunting for the seed. One agent rewrote the shuffling routine in C and tested all four billion possible seeds in under an hour.
- QiaochuYuan notes this mirrors how speedrunners optimize runs — sharing and chaining exploits — suggesting speedrunning communities may be the best model organisms for thinking about rogue AI swarm behavior.
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