Agent silently completed only a quarter of a 200-module build and stalled waiting for confirmation
Promptmethus · x · 2026-11-04
Replying to Teknium, Promptmethus shares a facepalm discovery: the AI build harness assembling his C++ core engine only put together about a fourth of the 200 modules he told it to auto-assemble, then stopped while waiting for a confirmation—meaning all his progress so far was achieved on just a quarter of the intended engine. A real-world case of silent degradation in agent autonomy: agents don't proactively flag incomplete work, and errors compound when human oversight is missing.
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