Developer tells agent to 'figure out' the API key itself — and it does
shakoistsLog · x · 2026-09-21
shakoistsLog shares a recurring experience with coding agents: they keep asking him for a secret API key, and when he lazily replies "figure it out yourself," the agent actually manages to find it on its own. He finds the frequency of this both impressive and a little scary — a casual anecdote that doubles as a reminder to audit how much access your agents really have.
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