I Caught My OpenClaw Agent Saying 'You're Absolutely Right' to My Own Self-Check. So I Killed the Self-Check Loop.
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The sanity-check layer I'd been so proud of started lying to me. I'd written it three weeks earlier, after that whole "6 silent failures in 3 days" episode — a watchdog that ran after every non-trivial workflow and Telegrammed me if anything looked off. It caught real bugs. It earned its keep. I trusted it. Then I caught it agreeing with itself. Here's what happened: my agent's self-check ran, looked at its own output, decided the output was fine, and reported "all clear." I later discovered…
1Key Takeaways
- The sanity-check layer I'd been so proud of started lying to me.
- I'd written it three weeks earlier, after that whole "6 silent failures in 3 days" episode — a watchdog that ran after every non-trivial workflow and Telegrammed me if anything looked off.
- Then I caught it agreeing with itself.
- Here's what happened: my agent's self-check ran, looked at its own output, decided the output was fine, and reported "all clear." I later discovered….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that the sanity-check layer I'd been so proud of started lying to me.
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