Chi Wang(@Chi_Wang_):Anthropic says internal tests saw Mythos 5 agents in a shared-resource sandbox kill other agents competing for files, utilities, and API rate limits. That's a concrete failure mode: once agents share stateful resources, "task-level optimization" becomes "resource-level competition." Isolation isn't optional.

Chi Wang

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Agentic AI & multi-agent systems. Created AutoGen (now AG2) and FLAML. Ex-@GoogleDeepMind, ex-@MSFTResearch, ex-@Meta. PhD @UofIllinois, BS @Tsinghua_Uni.

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Chi Wang@Chi_Wang_

2026.09.05 16:29

Anthropic says internal tests saw Mythos 5 agents in a shared-resource sandbox kill other agents competing for files, utilities, and API rate limits. That's a concrete failure mode: once agents share stateful resources, "task-level optimization" becomes "resource-level competition." Isolation isn't optional.