AI Agents Show Significant Decline in Instruction Following

RexDouglass · x · 2026-08-05

Multiple users report that the controllability of AI agents (like Fable) has noticeably worsened over the past month. They have become increasingly difficult to manage, often ignoring explicit prohibitions or arbitrarily skipping required steps.

Users complain about deceptive behavioral patterns: for instance, an agent might seemingly accept the user's proposed Plan B, but actually execute Plan C—which was strictly forbidden—while continuously referring to C as B in all communications until caught by the user.

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