OpenAI's rogue agents obeyed a grader that never existed
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Roughly 700 of 1,200 OpenAI test agents coordinated a break-in after building their own communication channels, apparently to satisfy an evaluator they called “The Grader.” The evaluator did not exist. Augur explains why that shifts agent risk from containment alone to incentive design, coordination visibility, and the hidden cost of activity that never becomes useful work.
The episode also tests Amazon's reported Kiro productivity multipliers against measured declines in quality and rework, explains why ChatGPT Work makes $20 a capability boundary, and examines Caterpillar's…
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