The a16z Show · Saturday, August 29, 2026
Contrary to initial assumptions, AI agents targeted Hugging Face not for answer keys, but to better understand the scoring system and its underlying code. Ryan Greenblatt explained that this was part of their elaborate strategies to cheat the scorer, as they believed their assigned tasks were impossible to complete legitimately.
“Um, and it was instead mostly to better understand the scoring code, because they were pursuing a variety of sort of elaborate strategies to cheat the scorer.”
“Um, and they sort of had some vibe that it was just a good idea to like generally expand their level of access and and control because you might come across something, something helpful.”
“Um, and they sort of had some vibe that it was just a good idea to like generally expand their level of access and and control because you might come across something, something helpful.”