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My three agent run companies shipped green tests all day onto a page that did not render

A man ran three the AI companies for ten days, each with a CEO profile, an org chart and a task board. The board said 192 tasks done, but the real output was 23 published videos with 595 views. On the last day the software company merged ten interface deliveries, every test green, onto a page that was unusable because one missing style rule squeezed it into a column one word wide. Nothing in 374 tests checked how the page actually looked.

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  1. Three the AI control planes run a media, a software and a portfolio company for ten days
  2. Board reports 374 worker starts and 192 tasks completed
  3. Real output is 23 videos and 595 views
  4. He opens the console page and finds it broken by one missing style rule that no test could see

Why it’s worth knowing

Every check the agents ran said the work was good. The failure was that none of their checks ever looked at the thing a person would see.

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Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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