Yeah! When that happens I usually stop it and tap in a bigger model to “think” and get out of the loop (or fix it myself)

I’m impressed with this latest generation of models: they reward hack a lot less. Previously they’d change a failing unit test, but now they just look for reasonable but easy ways out in the code.

I call it reward hacking, and laziness is not the right word, but “knowing what needs to be done and not doing it” is the general issue here. I see it in junior engineers occasionally, too.