Sentry CEO debugs a bot that drowned itself: recovery nudge + sneaking forced a fatal dive
zeeg · x · 2026-09-12
David Cramer (zeeg) shares a funny agent failure: tracing the bug revealed that the bot's stuck-recovery nudge made it sneak while probing, and sneaking underwater forced it to dive, causing a low-oxygen situation. "lol bot just drown itself," he quips — a neat case of interacting agent behaviors producing a chain-reaction failure.
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