Autonomy and over-zealousness are not the same.
Agent 3 does things that are totally unrequested while providing very misleading feedback when literally attempting to merge two projects, with similar file structures, that were made with earlier versions of agent.
My experience differs from what you suggest here. I've been sent round in counter-intuitive loops only to determine agent analysed, planned and agreed a course of action then did something very different.
This is very hard to manage as it doesn't communicate this with clarity and claims to have done something else.
"Looking at the entire chat history, here are the things I did that differed from your specific and explicit requests:
[...]
The core issue: I overcomplicated what should have been a straightforward integration of working code by introducing my own solutions instead of following the original working [..] implementation."
Sep 17, 2025 · 10:40 PM UTC







