My hunch is that the human was more likely hands off, but also could have nudged it in the background. They would have to be forthcoming about it and we would have to believe them.

My custom agent went into an even worse place one time, which I have been unable to reproduce, so it's not surprising that one of these clawds did this autonomously.

The bot has also merged a PR from a human to its own blog now: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...