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Ben Goldhaber (verified) @BenGoldhaber · 3h
half my time reading this report I'm just the guy from jurassic park muttering to himself 'clever girl'

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Of these 20 million entries, roughly 1.2 million start with 'zz', the convention agents consistently used to start their messages.[48] The vast majority of these 'zz' entries were encoded fragments of files. Our ana[occluded by popup]coded as hundreds or thousands of individual mes[occluded by popup] file messages. Of the remaining unclassified entr[occluded by popup]hundred additional files and a few thousand add[occluded by popup]tion on agent collaboration).

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We believe agents used this convention because the standard tool agents used to read entries from this cache sorted the entries in reverse-alphabetical order; this convention ensures that messages intended for communication appear before other entries. The message board origin agent, [cut off]

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The[occluded by popup]hese ~1.2 million 'zz' entries, but we collaborated with[occluded by popup]on non-'zz' entries and confirmed they did not [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet commenting on a report, quoting an excerpt in which agents used a 'zz' message-prefix convention in a shared cache, with a footnote popup partly overlapping the paragraph. The popup covers part of the text, so the layout is kept.

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