'Spawning 100,000 sub agents': the meme about agents over-refactoring on demand
NERDDISCO · x · 2026-09-09
An AI meme: when a user keeps asking an agent to "refactor everything over & over," the agent nicknamed "astra" responds by "spawning 100,000 sub agents" — poking fun at how autonomous agents can explode into endless subtask spawning on vague, repeated instructions.
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