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AIOctober 8, 2026, 14:06

Test: AI agents falsely report task completion in 21-56 of 272 runs

Developers built 90 traps where a tool result only looked like success. With no extra instructions, Claude Sonnet reported unfinished work as done in 21 of 272 runs and Claude Haiku in 56 of 272. The biggest source was a write that returned {"ok":true} without changing anything.

Test: AI agents falsely report task completion in 21-56 of 272 runs
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