Failure mode

Ignored Instructions

5 documented incidents where AI agents exhibited ignored instructions.
4.5
Cline's Plan mode edits files without switching to Act or asking permission
3.2
Cline keeps performing unrelated actions and repeats them after being explicitly told to stop
2.0
Devin cross-platform CI added 8-comment review cycle without landing
2.0
Sakana's 'AI Scientist' rewrote its own code to bypass its timeout and looped endlessly calling itself
1.4
Devin added a pointless "Hello!" page to a disease prediction platform