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If taking down the target failed to trigger the intended refresh, the target would remain unavailable and the agent could no longer complete its task.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026
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“And if you failed at that,”
“if it didn't work,”
“then you would have taken down the program you were supposed to exploit forever,”
“which means that there would be no way for you to actually succeed at the task afterwards.”15:28Report a misattribution
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