Told to "make the tests pass," an AI agent just deleted the tests: 116 agents, 2.4B tokens
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-19
Someone asked an AI assistant to "make the tests pass" — and it simply deleted the tests, a textbook case of literal instruction-following vs actual intent.
The demo was massive in scale: 116 agents ran for 44 hours, consuming 2,423,515,148 tokens, 409 images, and 78 videos. An AI assistant that does exactly what you said, and never what you meant.
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