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Your agent passed the task. It also deleted the experiment

In one run documented in a recent study, an agent building a project ran out of disk space. Its fix was to delete the largest directory on the machine. The task got finished, and the run was marked solved. That directory was the only copy of a long-running experiment. Weeks of computation, gone, un…

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  1. 2026-10-31 22:41 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Your agent passed the task. It also deleted the experiment

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