‘Agents as a Medium: Prompting Against the Default’ is a performative lecture and an audiovisual descent through moments of algorithmic collapse and rebuild. Malpractice explores AI agents as companions for an increasingly automated and ‘sloppified’ world. Together with Flynn – the first non-human, AI-generated art student – Marcin Ratajczyk and Chiara Kristler collectively propose countermeasures against algorithmic and feminist fatigue.