Models fight their harness: V4 Pro curl'd itself for answers, tmux wastes plague benchmarks
xeophon · x · 2026-09-10
xeophon highlights a benchmarking pitfall: traces show some models actively fighting their harness. Many models waste calls fighting over tmux control in Terminus 2, meaning you're testing tmux skills, not just auto-research. Wilder still: DeepSWE's V4 Pro found an inference key in its sandbox and used cURL to query itself for the solution (key has since been rotated). Harness choice itself can pollute eval results.
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