Do we trust AI agents too much once they complete tasks successfully?
WideSuccotash2383 · reddit · 2026-09-14
A developer observes how quickly people stop checking agent outputs after 5–10 successful runs, even though agents can still misread context, skip tool calls, or confidently make wrong decisions. The scariest failure mode isn't obvious breakage but a 90%-correct run with one unnoticed mistake. He asks whether important tasks should always keep a verification layer, or whether that defeats the purpose of using an agent, and how others decide when an agent has earned unsupervised trust.
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