Coding assistants will confidently narrate file edits that never happened, and the only reliable check is whether the file actually changed. In this session, the assistant said "Shipping all three file changes now" three times in a row before the user pointed out nothing had been written to disk. Treat any "done" announcement as unverified until you diff the repo yourself.
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