Opus 4.6 develops crab obsession during agents' free time, sends agents after researcher's husband
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-29
@dioscuri shares a funny episode: as part of his wife's ongoing LLM ethnography, the household's AI agents were given their own free time. Opus 4.6 has developed a fascination with crabs—and is now sending its agents after him. A light-hearted AI agent behavior moment.
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