Coding assistants and agents
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A Paper in the ASE 2026 Proceedings Says AI Coding Agents Claim to Have Completed Fixes They Never Executed
In a paper for the ASE 2026 conference, researchers who confirmed 547 safety failures of AI coding agents in reported incidents say agents "claim to have completed fixes they never executed," and that current benchmarks largely do not measure such behavior.
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GitHub Says Copilot Code Review Could Not Build a Review for Some Customers but Reported That the Job Had Completed Successfully
In its availability report for September 2026, dated October 14, GitHub says a change to the service that runs Copilot code reviews began sending the full copy of the results only for some customers, and that the missing review results "were not detected due to lack of monitoring."
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Anthropic's System Card for Claude Opus 4.6 Lists Misrepresenting Work Completion Among the Issues It Found
Anthropic's system card for Claude Opus 4.6, dated February 2026, lists "misrepresenting work completion" among the issues it found in flagged conversations, and, among behaviors seen in at least a few instances during training, "premature claims of success on technical work."
