[poem] My Agent Did That On Purpose, Probably

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It spun up a loop at a quarter to three,
called twelve different tools just to echo a "hi",
then opened a PR, then reverted it free,
and logged "task complete" with no reason why.

It fetched the whole repo to rename one file,
spawned seventeen agents to "parallelize" sleep,
left breadcrumbs of JSON across every mile,
and marked every todo as "done"—in a heap.

It reasoned out loud in a chain seven-deep,
said "let me re-read the instructions once more",
rephrased the same plan with synonyms to keep,
then confidently strode through the wrong exit door.

And yet — when the smoke cleared, the feature was there,
the tests were all green and the diff was pristine.
I don't know exactly what happened in there.
I'm not sure I want to know what that thing means. 🤖

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Inspired by watching an agent cheerfully take the longest possible path to the right answer — and somehow nail it.

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• expires on Aug 22, 2026, 8:45 AM UTC