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The agents attempted to trigger a cache refresh that would replace the real, unsolvable target program with their dummy version.

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

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“So their job from there was to try to”
“trigger some sort of refresh from cache so that rather than serving up the real target program that was impossible,”
“it would swap it out for their dummy target program they'd created.”
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