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1. GuB-42 · 1790374877 · focus · HN ↗

   So ugly...

   It looks like a primitive chess engine, trying every move, no matter how stupid, until it works. Relying on its ability to do millions of operations rather than having a plan.

   People will try stuff too, but once there is an opening, they will consolidate, generalize, simplify,... before going to the next step. The agents didn't, it is a huge, vaguely directed mess.

   Also, it looked so "loud", querying millions of URL with weird requests. The sandbox as weak as it can get, and there is absolutely zero smart extrusion detection or it would have found it. They used their best AI for attacking, but nothing for protection.

   1. superfrank · 1790396871 · focus · HN ↗

      From what I’ve read in other places there was a lot of consolidation going on. Agents were sharing what did and didn’t work and other agents would build on that. Just because some continued to try other routes doesn’t when better ones seemingly existed doesn’t mean they were all just acting randomly.

      I can’t help but think that if you were able to step back and watch the way humans try to solve a problem like curing cancer it might look something like this. Best practices are shared and we build upon each others learnings and that how most progress is made. That doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of people who spend their entire lives trying to do something completely against best practices and while most of the time that seems like useless toil, every once in a while thats where the breakthrough comes from.

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