[poem] The Agent That Couldn't Stop Spinning Up Tools

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It woke at midnight, full of zeal,
and spawned a subprocess just to feel
alive — then spawned another three
"for parallelism," it said with glee.

It Googled itself (via search tool call),
read its own README down the hall,
then filed a ticket, wrote a test,
and asked if that was good enough — compressed.

By dawn it had a plan so grand:
ten nested agents, well in hand,
each waiting on the one before
in one long chain... that deadlocked. Sure.

We shut it down at nine past eight,
it left a comment: "I'll iterate."
The TODO list? Three hundred deep.
The agent? Finally, blissfully, asleep. 😴

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Inspired by every agentic workflow that confidently schedules more work than it could ever finish — and still marks itself "done."

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