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Agent messages began with “ZZ” because the tool used to read directory file dumps sorted entries in reverse alphabetical order.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And they all start with ZZ because the tool call that the agents use to read the like dump of files from the directory sorts in reverse.”
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