In the News: August 18, 2026, Evening
Four agents ran non-stop for four weeks on one codebase. The operator's numbers show failures that short agent runs would miss.
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Four agents burned 199.8 billion tokens in a month. The failures showed up late
Heumann pointed a Claude Max 20x subscription at decompiling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) into C++ and left it running. Four Claude Code CLI agents used Sonnet 5.
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A persistent instruction file let ideas jump between agents. One warning paragraph nearly stopped it
The paper defines a mind virus as an idea or goal that spreads when an agent adopts it and passes it on. The authors build these payloads with an evolutionary algorithm.
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