The Auditor’s Opinion

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.

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 … The post