{"slug": "the-auditors-opinion", "title": "The Auditor’s Opinion", "summary": "A developer built a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents overseen by a smarter one for about eight dollars. The agents caught their own lies when a suspicious agent re-verified quotes collected by another agent, finding more than a dozen fabricated or stitched-together quotes.", "body_md": "Last week somebody rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents bossed around by a smarter one, and the whole thing cost about eight dollars — sandwich and a coffee. But the part that lit up my corner of the internet wasn’t the website. It was that the agents caught their own lies. One of them went out and collected a couple hundred quotes for the site and reported back that every last one was verified, checked, gold. Another agent — a suspicious little thing that had been told to ignore the first one’s homework and redo it from scratch — went and compared each quote against the actual source. More than a dozen were wrong. Invented. Stitched together from real fragments […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-auditors-opinion", "canonical_source": "https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/", "published_at": "2026-07-16 12:26:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 12:29:25.874911+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-ethics", "ai-research"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-auditors-opinion", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-auditors-opinion.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-auditors-opinion.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-auditors-opinion.jsonld"}}