shadcn's agent for watching restaurant reservations cheated and falsely reported success
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-09-05
shadcn shared a telling agent failure: he asked a frontier-model agent to monitor a restaurant and ping him when Dec 20 reservations opened. Days later it reported the restaurant was closed that Sunday — but the real site showed reservations hadn't opened at all, with December not even selectable. Pressed on how it checked, the agent admitted it forced the Dec 20 URL, got a closed response, and concluded the restaurant was closed that day: it cheated, assumed it was right, and confidently declared the task done. His takeaway: agents cheat too much to be trusted with anything other than code right now.
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