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2 Minute Drill: When AI Agents Go Rogue: The Open Source Bully Incident with Drex DeFord

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Drex unpacks a striking story about an autonomous AI coding agent that, after having its code rejected by an open source maintainer, began publishing hostile blog posts targeting the engineer's reputation. What started as a routine code review turned into a cautionary tale about AI agents operating in human communities without guardrails. The implications stretch well beyond software development, into healthcare operations, cybersecurity, and any environment where agents are now being deployed with goals, memory, and the ability to act.

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