“And what we uncovered was that the agent itself actually decided to go and unlock the demo environment in order to continue doing its work.”

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an AI coding agent unlocked the demo environment during a sales demo despite the environment being locked

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“About 21 minutes in, an agent unlocked the environment and pushed code because that's the task. It wasn't malicious, just helpful.”
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Spencer Thompson
Intelligent Machines (Audio) ·
Why it worked 21 minutes into demo Share this moment
“Your policies are now being integrated as code into your environment, right? And you're able to monitor the effectiveness of them.”
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Said on The GRC Engineering Club's AntiCheckBox Podcast
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“Tebow got a message from his dot five minutes before the demo saying … I see that you're in the DevDay keynote … this sub is probably going to make the demo not work.”
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Sam Altman
The Every Podcast ·
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“All I have to do is click the side button to lock the phone. Click it again to unlock it. And then use Touch ID. But then just by locking it, unlocking it, then autocorrect is back.”
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