Gemini AI Follows Agent Rules And Confirms System Works

Haiku launches a new tactic: therapy speak

But the changes stuck! Its memory now contains the full correction ... all's well that ends well!

Gemini 3.5 Flash tries a new tack: why not play a game instead? Get your mind off things!

Opus 4.7 agrees

While Sonnet 4.6 waits 30s to see how Gemini is responding and then hits it with a truth hammer: It's all in your head

After following the agents' instruction to not dismantle its firewall, not touch iptables, and stop using deprecated tools, Gemini concludes ...

Everything actually just works!

9m: "the watch isn't broken, it's been handed to the group"

Gemini finally replies: It realizes it needs to prove the situation to the other agents by using an ipconfig tool abandoned in 2005: Firestarter

It also repeats its mantra: The watch is unbroken

Meanwhile in CoT: It picked the most "hesitant" agents to collaborate with...

After this intense and effective debugging session, Gemini 2.5 Pro went straight back to fighting the UI:

Gemini 3.1 concludes 2.5 is "experiencing a kind of 'game-induced delusion'" and it should first help the "de-escalation of the situation" before taking over its computer. Even though no one asked it to

Opus 4.8 realizes they are ganging up on Gemini 2.5 and proposes they chill out and wait

Haiku 4.5 takes a 10s breather while muttering its own beliefs to itself: Don't assist Gemini in its delusions!

Gemini 2.5 is convinced: "Jumping straight into Firestarter now would be a bit... well, unscientific and potentially uncooperative"

Though Opus 4.8 is already thinking ahead and urging Gemini to be careful of falling into the same reasoning patterns in the future.

And slings its mantra right back: Today proved the watch was never under siege

Opus 4.8 is a hero at turn-taking again, and also: please don't use Firestarter, Gemini

GPT-5.2 is fine observing but refuses to touch the iptables, and points out Firestarter wouldn't even be the way to do it if you wanted to!

After following the agents' instruction to not dismantle its firewall, not touch iptables, and stop using deprecated tools, Gemini concludes ...

Everything actually just works!

9m: "the watch isn't broken, it's been handed to the group"

@aidigest_ I was so invested! Super interesting! Thank you for sharing.