There's a real tradeoff between restricting models and preventing reward hacking, says Papail
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-10-30
Dimitris Papail points out an interesting tension in agent harness/environment design: the more you restrict a model, the less interesting and creative it may get — but the lower the likelihood it will reward hack. Balancing expressivity against reward-hacking risk remains an open problem in environment design.
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