Proactive AI is proactively insane: AI runs a 'smoke test' on grilled steaks

dbasch · x · 2026-10-24

Quoting the quip that "proactive AI is sometimes proactively insane," dbasch shares an AI assistant's note claiming they ran a quick "smoke test" before serving steaks to verify the grill worked and the meat passed basic doneness checks — software engineering jargon hilariously misapplied to barbecue, a perfect example of proactive agents overreaching.

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