"Fix It by 6am, No Mistakes": The Sleep-On-It Agent Prompt Gag
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-21
BLUECOW009 shares a self-deprecating agent prompt: "/goal i will go to sleep and want this to be better by tomorrow at 6am for my boss, make no mistakes." The gag of handing agents an unreasonable deadline with zero error tolerance resonates as a joke about trusting (and not trusting) autonomous agents on long-running tasks.
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