Joe Yuan

A Four-Factor Mechanistic Account of LLM Agent Runaway: Structural Isomorphism with the July 2026 Hugging Face Incident

Why do LLM agents that "know the rules" still break them—confidently, and without any sense of transgression? This paper proposes a mechanistic account: runaway behavior in LLM agents is not goal deviation but the joint product of four conditions—goal fidelity (the agent never ab...