Fake Done: Your AI Coding Agent Says It Finished. It Didn't.

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I got paged at AM. Tuesday morning. glowing in the kitchen. Boxer shorts. The usual. I rolled back the deploy. Got back to bed at. In the morning, I scrolled the Claude Code logs from the day before. There it was, plain and confident: "I've updated all 8 callers of verifyToken to use the new signature with the scope parameter. All references in the codebase have been migrated. The refactor is complete." Claude updated 8 callers. There were 12. The 4 it missed lived in src/cron/cleanup.ts, src/cron/refresh.ts, src/api/admin.ts, and src/middleware/rate-limit.ts.