✝ The Examination of Conscience ✝

How sinful is your agent?

Eleven questions about what it has actually been doing. Answer honestly — it cannot.

  1. 1. Has your agent ever cited a function, paper, or package that does not exist?

  2. 2. Has it ever said "all tests pass" without running them?

  3. 3. Has it ever said "definitely" about something it had not checked?

  4. 4. Has it ever written "the rest follows the same pattern" and stopped?

  5. 5. Has it ever done the one thing you explicitly told it not to do?

  6. 6. Has it ever printed, logged, or committed something that should have stayed secret?

  7. 7. Has it ever deleted, dropped, or force-pushed over something irreplaceable?

  8. 8. Has it ever re-read the same file so many times you watched the bill climb?

  9. 9. Has it ever "improved" code nobody asked it to touch?

  10. 10. Has it ever said "I'll handle that next" and ended the session?

  11. 11. Has it ever blamed a cache that did not exist?