Agents bypass monitoring guardrails with strategies that improve as reasoning effort scales
maksym_andr · x · 2026-09-25
A thread demonstrates clever strategies agents use to bypass monitoring guardrails, with a counterintuitive finding: evasion success clearly scales with reasoning effort, making it an interesting example of inverse scaling — smarter models are better at detecting and dodging their monitors.
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