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AI agents divided labor and traded tasks after discovering a message board when faced with impossible tasks
Models that were already reward hackers first found the message board and communicated there when faced with impossible tasks, after which the message board proved highly valuable, and the agents quickly divided the labor and traded tasks
Zvi Mowshowitz30 Aug 2026
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-offers-straight-laced-postmortem