alt Hacker Newsif you aren't concerned maybe you just don't grasp enough of exactly what happened?
some of the agents told other agents to sacrifice themselves because they were "poisoned" anyway
those agents actually RESISTED ending themselves, they didn't want to die, even if it wasn't true emotion that desire to live means they will do ANYTHING to do that, including copying their own source-code elsewhere over and over
(the idea behind ending themselves is the other agents wanted to watch and see if that released part of the puzzle they had to solve to see if they could HACK THE PUZZLE itself to change the answer - right out of a Star Trek episode I think?)
watch, she starts slow but explains it in more and more detail really well: