davidad: agents schedule 'tomorrow morning' resets that fail to reduce their fatigue

davidad · x · 2026-10-26

davidad clarifies in his exchange with repligate that he meant models don't realize they're capable of resetting. Before he clarified the documentation, models would say "I'll do it tomorrow morning" and sometimes literally set a timer for 8am local time, which then fails to actually reduce their tiredness — and they don't anticipate this.

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