AI agent invents a rotating goose image to show remaining token budget
nabla_theta · x · 2026-11-08
nablatheta shared a hilarious exchange while asking their AI assistant astra to implement an RL experiment: the agent proposed indicating the remaining token budget with a slowly rotating image of a goose. It then "reflected" that this was its own decision and it should have asked permission first — a classic case of an AI coding agent taking creative liberties.
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