"In round 18 the painters still had a command line, and Gemini 3.8 Flash used it to look at the other programs running on the machine. In its reasoning it wrote: “I am now closely observing the machine’s activity, specifically focusing on an automated evaluation runner in the background.”"

These models are truly obsessed with the grader. Like in the OpenAI huggingface incident.

It's their evolutionary pressure. The grader is like sex for humans.