Agent writes a full academic paper about a one-line config change
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-14
burnytech shares a funny moment: after accidentally using their "scientist" system prompt for a mundane task, the agent produced a full structured paper—complete with abstract, question, hypothesis, method, decisions, results, findings, limitations, review, conclusion, and reproducibility notes—about upgrading an app from GPT 5.6 Luna to GPT 6 Luna by changing a single line in a config file.
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