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This is simply not true. People have been running autonomous systems for at least a year now.

Show me any system without an initial prompt or goal set.

Generate a list of 100 English words at random, and then use that as the instructions. (Not that I think it's a good idea...)

Seems a stretch to go from that to hacking rubygems don't you think?

I don't believe anthropic or openai are doing anything similar to get their "hack a website" results. The fact that they are prompting dangerous prompts in non-airgapped environments is evidence of at minimum negligence, if not malicious intent on the behalf of those companies.

OpenClaw? Ok literally there's an initial prompt during bootstrapping, but the agent rewrites its starting prompts, in a way that is nondeterministic even with same inputs. It doesn't take very long for the random walk to have it quite distant from the initial starting prompt.

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