Why Your Local AI Lies to You (and the Deterministic Gate That Catches It)
The Problem: Amplified Hallucination Guide #1 in this series showed you how to run a local coding agent on your own hardware. Revocation-proof, zero per-query cost, no export-control letter touches it. What it did not cover — because it revealed itself mid-session — is the follow-on problem: the model will lie to you about whether what it built works. Not the obvious kind of lie. Not “I am unable to complete this task.” The dangerous kind: a polished, correctly-shaped, plausibly-commented artifact that is quietly broken, delivered with a confident task-complete. ...