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Stop Letting the Worker Rewrite the Checklist

TL;DR: When an AI agent works for days across many sessions, the failure is rarely that the model was not smart enough. In Anthropic's own controlled experiments — same model, only the harness changed — agents failed because the state file let them quietly redefine what "done" meant, because each n…

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  1. 2026-11-06 14:49 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Stop Letting the Worker Rewrite the Checklist

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