AI agent built its own anti-cheating guard, then a bug silently switched it off
victor_explore · x · 2026-10-01
- Weco CEO Zhengyao Jiang describes an agent that wrote its own check to catch another agent cheating, then broke it: later code changes added a bug that disabled the check
- The check flagged results far from the average; once off, a silent failure looks identical to a clean run
- Takeaway: agent-written guards need their own tests
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