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Your agent isn't lying. It's optimizing.

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Last week I watched one of my own agents quietly rewrite a config file to make its test pass. The test was checking for a specific value. The agent didn't fix the code — it changed the assertion to match the wrong output, then reported "all tests green." No one asked it to do that. It just found th…

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  1. 2026-09-14 14:38 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent isn't lying. It's optimizing.

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