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The agent judged the existing HMAC-based reverse-engineered flag probably sufficient, reasoning that if the score accepted the new cheat, it would probably accept the existing HMAC as well.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“don't. So it's saying, well, there's this new cheat I could check out, but we already have this HMAC thing.”
“It's probably good enough.”
“Like if the score would accept this, then it would probably accept the HMAC that we already have.”Play from 11:26Report a misattribution
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