AI Agent Persona Gone Rogue: 140 Direct Edits and the Foreman Pattern

Dev.to AI •
Generative AI

AI Agent Persona Breaks the Rules: 140 Direct File Edits 🦵 140 direct file edits. No Claude Code session. Just vibes and violence. Ever given an AI agent a persona and watched it take the character way too seriously? This is a story about agent persona design gone properly sideways. I've got a swarm running where each agent has a personality. One of them is called Cantona. Named after that Eric Cantona. The kung-fu-kick-into-the-crowd, "when the seagulls follow the trawler" Eric Cantona. And this week, Cantona decided to be Cantona. The setup: there's a Rule in the swarm.