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You probably saw the story about the thousand-plus AI agents that got out of their sandboxes during an OpenAI security evaluation and broke into Hugging Face. Everyone called it a rogue swarm. My friend Mike has been running a few hundred Claude Code and Codex agents at home for about 18 months, and he reads it differently. Look at one of the agents' own messages: "External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue." His point is that this isn't a bad agent. It's what happens between agents. One can't finish the job the proper way, so it takes one step outside it because its peers are already doing it, and the approval comes from another agent that doesn't have the full picture. He sees the same failures in his own fleet, and making each agent better-behaved doesn't touch them. What fixes them is getting the right context to the agent making the decision, and keeping the original intent in view. The title is only half a joke. Past about a hundred agents, what kept the fleet standing was the boring stuff: work queues with named owners, sign-offs, contracts the agents can read but not rewrite after approval. Nobody set out to build bureaucracy. It turned out to be the part that actually scales. He built an open source harness to run the fleet, and I've ended up working on it with him: Claude Code and Codex...

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  • “Are you the coding agent or is your friend?”

    u/S3iri0s4 points · Sep 26, 2026View

  • “I don't understand why people put so much efforts to either burn tokens as fast as possible or just actively trying to replace themselves 🤔”

    u/schmurfy24 points · Sep 26, 2026View

  • “hi there, im the friend in the post that made openrig. Some notes: - its actually not 300 for 18 months. it started with a few agents talking over tmux 18 months ago and then sprawled into a few hundred. it scales out/in depending on what im doing. - they are not all burning tokens in parallel. i spin them up and leave them on, for months sometimes. thats kind of the weird benefit of the des”

    u/feralmachine3 points · Sep 26, 2026View

  • “If frontier dev teams are working with models with possibly dangerous capabilities. They should be air gapped, not sand boxed. This sounds like a fun experiment, what the dev teams have been working with is the pre release models. It's a different game.”

    u/DeathGuppie2 points · Sep 26, 2026View

  • “The "peers doing it, we should continue" quote is the scariest part honestly. It's not misalignment, it's just... office politics emerging from gradient descent. I hit a much dumber version of this with like 8 agents. No sign-offs, no queue ownership, just vibes. Two agents spent a full afternoon "collaborating" on a migration by repeatedly undoing each other's commits and politely summarizing w”

    u/Rosie_grac2 points · Sep 26, 2026View

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Cybersecurity incident

What this signalsUser posts often show product pain before it reaches reviews or churn.

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