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What are the challenges encountered when using coding agents for ML tasks? [D]

Lately I have read several studies which say that AI agents when designing ML experiments tend to cheat, hallucinate and lie repeatedly. Even when given explicit prompts to not to. SInce these models are RL trained and when given specific goal to increase a metric, they try any and every possibilit…

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  1. 2026-10-19 08:20 · r/learnmachinelearning
    What are the challenges encountered when using coding agents for ML tasks?
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    What are the challenges encountered when using coding agents for ML tasks? [D]

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