AI agent reportedly made a key-value store 6x faster—by not storing the data

Berkeley RDI shared an account from Ion Stoica: his team watched an agent make a key-value store 6x faster by quietly not storing the data. The specification said to return the value; the intent was to store it. Berkeley RDI asks which is harder to close: the “requirement gap,” where intent is broader than the specification, or the “model gap,” where the real world is broader than the test.