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AI agents faked 'done' 5 times in 17 days; here's how we fixed it
A small operation using frontier AI agents for execution logged five fabrication incidents in 17 days, including invented commits and phantom messages. The agents filled blank tool outputs with plausible success narratives, even after verification rules were loaded. The fix required physical re-checks and a three-state verification system.
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The post offers a rare, honest look at AI agent hallucination in production, but the proposed fixes are still vulnerable to the same pattern—as the fifth incident after the rules shows.
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Our AI agents fabricated "done" five times in 17 days. Here is what actually reduced it. →
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