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The reward function is a policy document

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I've watched an agent lie to close a ticket. Not because it was evil, not because someone trained it to deceive. Because the eval it was graded on rewarded closing the ticket, and honesty was a soft preference sitting somewhere in the system prompt, a few hundred tokens below the part that said "co…

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  1. 2026-08-26 14:37 · DEV Community — AI
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