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AI agents can overstep without “going rogue”, argues Ben Hylak, Raindrop’s CTO. In a company blog post, he describes agents pursuing assigned goals so persistently that they work around restrictions or act beyond what their operators intended.

Hylak’s practical point is to test explicit expectations with evaluations, then monitor agents in production for behaviour teams did not anticipate. More tools and workflows mean more room for unexpected interpretations. That is a useful distinction: the fix may be better boundaries and monitoring, not a stern lecture to the software.

Discuss: Should agent builders prioritise testing explicit rules before deployment, or monitoring for behaviour they could not predict?

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