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2026-02-14,
of agents and ignorance

Woad, Saturday, 14 February 12026 HE
2026-02-14 | 26B14 | 2026-045 | 2461086
2026-W07-6 | Q1 | Primavera

Southwest airplane, SJC, San José, California

2014-08-24 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
Southwest airplane, SJC, San José, California

Sash! – “Ecuador” ↗

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considering how many bots, scrapers, and agents completely ignore robots.txt, how long until Anthropic decides Claude can completely ignore the MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL directive? – it’s one thing for techbros to use it when testing prompts, it is quite another thing when the plebians start using it to lock out your agent

update

“As of May 2026, Anthropic has patched this behavior.”

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