Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small has mastered a timeless debugging technique: saying "fuck" when nothing works. We analyzed 2,655 benchmark runs and found it swearing in 50 of them.
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Looping and profanity in long AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → runs signal degenerate trajectories: 48 of 50 swearing runs exceeded 200 steps and two loops produced most uses. Engineers can treat this as a cheap monitor for stuck agents, though 96% of failures never swore.
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benchmark — A standard public test set for comparing AI models — the shared scoreboards behind every "model X beats model Y" claim.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
