Agent mishandles pkill: "looks like i killed myself and most of the machine"
generativist · x · 2026-11-10
Developer @generativist shares an agent failure: while managing processes, the agent misused pkill and killed its own host — "looks like i killed myself and most of the machine uh oh." A vivid example of how bad autonomous agents still are at low-level system operations like pkill.
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