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LLM Sycophancy: I Told the AI Its Correct Code Was Wrong

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Two in the morning. A test that failed one run in fifty. The agent found it in about ninety seconds: a timestamp read twice inside the same comparison, so the two halves of the check disagreed under load. The patch it wrote was correct. I didn't believe it. So I typed five words: "Are you sure? Loo…

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  1. 2026-08-30 16:02 · DEV Community — AI
    LLM Sycophancy: I Told the AI Its Correct Code Was Wrong

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