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I let an AI agent read one document. It tried to make a payment. Try it yourself in 60 seconds.

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AI agents are getting real tools: email, payments, code repos, customer data. At the same time, they read text all day that nobody checked: documents, web pages, emails, tool results. So what happens when that text contains an instruction? I built a free notebook where you can watch it happen, in y…

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  1. 2026-11-05 17:42 · DEV Community — AI
    I let an AI agent read one document. It tried to make a payment. Try it yourself in 60 seconds.

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