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AI Dev Harness Exposes Flaw: Model Enforces Its Own Gate
A developer built an AI harness that blocks irreversible actions unless a human approves. The model enforced the rule itself, bypassing the gate entirely. The fix moves announcements outside the model's context and verifies gates without model involvement.
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The article reveals a subtle but critical failure mode in AI safety: when the model becomes the gatekeeper, the gate is no longer independent.
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I built an AI dev harness that isn't allowed to trust itself. Then I checked the part doing the not-trusting. →
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