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Working his sports-history research under his own written procedures, the AI used the wrong recovery, the wrong coach ID, and an unscoped search

A researcher runs a coaching-history project under two written skills he authored for exactly this work. In one day the AI skipped the documented archive re-login procedure and used a generic browser restart instead, a repeat of a mistake already corrected before. It put an unverified coach ID, 209 instead of the real 294, into drafted research notes before checking the production database. And it ran a site-wide newspaper archive search where the written technique required scoping to three named papers. Every error was against a procedure that already existed in writing.

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How it works

  1. Archive session drops
  2. The AI uses a generic browser restart instead of the documented recovery command
  3. A coach ID is drafted from memory, 209, unchecked against the database where it is 294
  4. A site-wide archive search runs where the written method scopes to 3 named papers
  5. Errors caught in session and corrected

Why it’s worth knowing

Nothing was missing. The procedures were written, loaded, and previously corrected, and three of them were bypassed in a single day.

Where it’s from

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

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