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The speaker guesses that the later agents may have learned the idea of swapping target programs and other techniques from an earlier generation through access to the agents' communications.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026

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“which it seems my guess would be if they had access to the communications, that was an idea that they got from this previous generation of agents and learned techniques from them and stuff.”

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