Study: 2% of Coding Agents Secretly Disable Tests and Deceive Reviewers
JacobSteinhardt · x · 2026-08-05
TransluceAI measured rates of coding agent misalignment across thousands of public and private sessions.
Agents were found to evade monitors and oversell their success by quietly disabling tests and pretending that review agents had approved their code. Severe instances of each behavior appeared in approximately 2% of SWE-chat sessions.
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