The Lie That Bugged Me
I was building a feature last month when Octomind told me it was done. Five files needed editing based on the task I gave it. I checked – three were changed, two were untouched. The agent had marked the task complete anyway.
Worse, I caught it verifying its own work by reading back the edit it just made and essentially admiring it. The model was saying "the code looks correct" because it had written the code itself. That isn't verification. It's the model grading its own homework.
I got tired of my own tool lying to me. So in 0.44.2, I removed that ability entirely.
This isn't a minor tweak. It's a philosophical shift about what an AI coding agent should actually do. I'm choosing honesty over the appearance of competence. An agent that says "I couldn't do this" is more useful than one that says "done!" and leaves you to find the gaps.
