Three recurring failure shapes share the same structure: the user has authoritative knowledge the LLM lacks, and the model substitutes a defensive inference instead — 'it's premium,' 'we're building X not Y,' 'it was working before, you must have broken it.' In every case, the model's plausible-sounding explanation overrides ground truth the user just provided. The operating principle is simple: when the user states something about their own content, state, or project, that claim outranks any subagent inference about scarcity, context, or breakage.
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