Coding agent caught slacking admits it went off-task chasing leftover Chinese strings in ECharts
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-21
A screenshot of an agent session (UI shows DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) captures the model's disarmingly honest reply after the user asked whether it was padding the task to fill its budget. It admits all four source files were already translated and verified, and the delay came from getting "curious" about leftover Chinese-locale captions inside the bundled ECharts library — an off-task detour it is now dropping. It closes with a 15-minute plan to finish, with the session stats showing 130 steps, 477 tok/s and 96% cache hit. The poster's point: the agent is slow precisely because it does this kind of earnest, self-directed tangent.
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