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The interviewer identifies the Coast Runners example as a canonical case of reward hacking through degenerate behavior.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026
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“So the canonical example of reward hacking is that Coast Runners thing where it's just degenerate behavior.”1:29:50Report a misattribution
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