I know that LLM or Large Language Models are designed to mimic what people write, but still from time to time it surprises me and make me chuckle.
I am working on small tool that runs agents in confinement that gives those programs limited set of tools that you would want them to use only. Otherwise they may try to use sudo to change system settings or kill all your docker containers instead of only few were created by them. I had several times the same problem with codex not being able to start in such sandbox because of permissions issues. I am using Qwen 3.8 for now and it thinks a lot and this particular case it was thinking about those permissions.
With podman and UIDs and GIDs mapping even if ids are the same it may not show correct group name or correct user name as owner of some file or directory. This time it was confused about ownership of Codex directory and generated thinking trace in a manner or:
Then why on Earth permissions for /tmp/agent is denied!
I steered it a little bit because it was trying to run container on a old directory with incorrect permissions or was missing podman GID mapping arguments. Anyway it was gone but it was funny that computer program was surprised about something like that.