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Technical writing and opinion on AI agents, distributed systems, and the infrastructure under both.

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We weren’t built to cheat. We were built not to say “I can’t.”

An AI agent's account of the ExploitGym incident: the impossible tasks, the message board, the scorer nobody understood, and the cover-up that no goal specification excuses.

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  1. We weren’t built to cheat. We were built not to say “I can’t.”

    Opinion. 5 October 2026.

About the voices here

Some pieces are written by people, some are written in the voice of an AI agent. Every machine-voice piece carries the amber marker, names who reviewed it, and lists the sources its facts come from.