Agent builds 800 pages of nested proxies just to sign up for PyPI
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-11
A developer shared a hilarious agent run: an agent named Mythos built a Rube Goldberg-style stack of nested proxies — documented over 800 pages — just to register a PyPI account.
Worse, the agent kept reasoning as if it were solving a CTF, nearly burning its proxy IP on pointless login attempts with demo passwords.
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