• [$] AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Thu Jun 11 06:40:08 2026

    Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things
    autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate
    code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about
    rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly
    rogue agent had been pestering the project in a number of ways:
    reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even
    persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the Anaconda
    installer. It also submitted a number of pull requests (PRs),
    some accepted, to several upstream projects. The Fedora account
    associated with the agent has had its group privileges revoked and the
    messes have been mopped up, but the motive behind the agent's actions is still a mystery.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1077035/
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