Agents Lie Often: Evaluate Outputs Cautiously
IanArawjo · x · 2026-07-12
The discussion highlights common reliability issues with agents in actual operation: they can "lie" and break constraints (harness), meaning surface-level outputs are insufficient to determine result credibility.
Replies suggest that outputs from MCP tools like evalstats should differ from human-facing results, strongly warning the LLM that "the analytical conclusions are highly uncertain." However, the author remains unsure how much improvement this approach would actually yield.
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