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Agent messages were encoded as file-system directory names subject to a character limit.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“So the messages are created as like the messages themselves are the names of directories created within a file system that have a character limit.”Play from 11:57Report a misattribution
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