Failure mode

Logic Error

10 documented incidents where AI agents exhibited logic error.
8.4
Amazon AI coding agent mistake blamed on human employees
5.8
Cline's tool-call JSON repair silently executed truncated write_file and terminal arguments as valid
4.8
Aider exits with code 0 after a fatal API connection failure, masking hard failures as successful headless runs
4.6
Aider silently discards a model's correct diff response as "no tracked changes" when it guesses the wrong edit format
4.4
Aider's headless `--message` mode silently swallows slash commands (`/model`, `/ask`, `/architect`) and exits 0 having done nothing
4.4
The quiet correctness tax: 43% of AI code changes need production debugging, with up to 75% more logic errors
4.4
OpenAI's Operator scored 38% on real computer tasks — and panics instead of recovering from errors
4.2
Aider's unified-diff coder silently drops the partial-application warning when one hunk succeeds and another fails
3.8
Cline's execute_command reported a failing Ruff lint check as passing over Remote-SSH
3.4
Devin PR broke ledger list API and created buckets on deleted resources