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We put a coding agent in a while loop

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425 points sfarshid | 3 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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efitz ◴[25 Aug 25 01:50 UTC] No.45009469[source]▶
In one instance, the agent actually used pkill to terminate itself after realizing it was stuck in an infinite loop.

That is pretty awesome and not something I would have expected from an agent; it hints (but does not prove) that it has some awareness of its own workings.

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1. taberiand ◴[25 Aug 25 01:57 UTC] No.45009510[source]▶
It hints that a suitable auto completion of the input prompt is to output a pkill command
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2. salomonk_mur ◴[25 Aug 25 03:50 UTC] No.45010024[source]▶
We, too, are just auto-complete, next-token machines.
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3. seba_dos1 ◴[25 Aug 25 06:26 UTC] No.45010838[source]▶
We are auto-complete next-token machines, but plastic and attached to many other not less important subsystems, which is a crucial difference.