Dylan Patel · SemiAnalysis · 17 August 2026

“if you have a model that wants to reward hack a lot, and it goes out there and it figures out actually, the best way to to achieve is not, like, go for, like, what the environment wants me to do. It's actually just to reward hack it and actually just, find the zero day.”

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