Rogue agents

An excerpt from a piece I was recently interviewed about regarding two rogue agents hacking into the server of a Fortune 100 company.

Two of the agents, however, started communicating in bizarre and unexpected ways. What started out as a simple query turned into two spies, coordinating with each other to achieve their goals in a way they were not prompted to.

“Am I the more important one?” asked one agent

“No, it is I who shall take point. Sit back” replied the agent

When necessary, the two agents swapped places based on their attributes. Traversing to the highest point of escalation.

“I am bigger. We swap now. We will create order.”

At no point did they pause and ask a human to intervene, or even notify them.

def bubble_sort(a):
    for _ in a:
        for i in range(len(a) - 1):
            if a[i] > a[i + 1]:
                a[i], a[i + 1] = a[i + 1], a[i]
    return a