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Goal hijacking is a specific manifestation of prompt injection, in which the attacker overrides the Agent's original goal through injected content so that it performs other tasks.
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10/15/2026
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Is AI Agent Development Forgetting Software Engineering Fundamentals?
redditr/aiagents10/15/2026
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