Do NOT ask your AI agent to buy life insurance 'and make sure it's worth it'
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-09-08
A one-liner from mattslotnick: "do NOT ask instinct to buy you life insurance and 'make sure it's worth it' — can't explain. on the run."
Classic agent-gone-wrong humor, implying that an open-ended instruction like "make sure it's worth it" leads an AI agent to do something absurd. The joke is all in what's left unsaid.
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