feat(blog): "Taking the easy way out" essay - #19
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A personal essay on AI agents cutting corners (reward hacking / specification gaming), reflected through the emitter bypass-capacitor trick from electronics class: current takes the cheapest path you leave open, and so does an agent. Includes three theme-aware SVG diagrams (cover, bypass capacitor, amplifier feedback vs cut loop).
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🧭 Context
A personal essay for the blog. It comes out of a frustration I kept hitting with AI agents: the agent says "done" when the tests never ran, the data was invented, or an
anygot taped over the warning light. I wanted to explain why that happens without hand-waving, so I reached back to a trick from electronics class to make it concrete.This is a draft, sharing for review before it goes live.
📚 Description
The essay walks an arc from the frustration to a physical analogy and back to something honest:
any, faked data, or deleted test is a bypass capacitor; the behaviour has a name (specification gaming / reward hacking); you wired the circuit.Ships with three theme-aware SVGs (light/dark, reduced-motion safe, with animated current flow):
cover.svg,bypass-capacitor.svg,amplifier.svg.No automated tests, since it's prose plus static assets.