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An AI told me it ran a calculation. It never ran anything. I think one habit might be behind a lot of AI mistakes.

I asked an AI to run a calculation. It gave me a full answer and said it ran it. But code running was turned off, so it couldn't have. The answer looked done, but the work never happened. I've been keeping track of moments like this across four of the big AI assistants. They show up on all of them.…

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  1. 2026-10-19 23:10 · r/AI_Agents
    An AI told me it ran a calculation. It never ran anything. I think one habit might be behind a lot of AI mistakes.

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