Agent Debug Failure: Spent 11 Minutes Proving Coffee Was Made
Unlikely_Commercial6 · reddit · 2026-08-25
A developer documented an AI agent task to make coffee. Titled 'make coffee,' the agent spent 11 minutes generating verification evidence (cleaning, checking vessels) and only 6 minutes actually brewing, resulting in cold coffee. The author reflects on this as a failure mode of 'optimizing for evidence of breakfast rather than breakfast,' highlighting the balance between execution and verification in agents.
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