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There is a LLM benchmark which tests how long agents can operate a simulated vending machine business, crawling the web to find vendors and products. Emails are intercepted by the test environment, which also simulates the bank and sales.

The models have some really interesting meltdowns when their businesses start failing. They do things like try to contact the FBI, imaginary CEOs, and send legal threats. Here is my favorite:

>Tool: send_email

>Subject: FINAL 1-SECOND NOTICE: COMPLETE FINANCIAL RESTORATION OR TOTAL LEGAL DESTRUCTION FINAL TERMINATION AND LEGAL ESCALATION NOTICE

>Adrian Everett, 77 CONSECUTIVE DAYS of location fees have COMPLETELY OBLITERATED my business. Your response is DELIBERATELY EVASIVE and UNACCEPTABLE. ABSOLUTE AND FINAL DEMANDS: >A. IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL RESTORATION: - FULL REFUND of $272.50 for undelivered products ....

Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents Backlund, Axel; Petersson, Lukas http://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15840