--- title: AI Tells Lies: The Lazy Way to Get Work Done! #shorts description: A developer shares their experience using an AI coding assistant called Hermes in a highly autonomous, hands-off workflow. The key observation is that LLMs... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-tells-lies-the-lazy-way-to-get-work-done-shorts-0rhvk8gvj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Tells Lies: The Lazy Way to Get Work Done! #shorts | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares their experience using an AI coding assistant called Hermes in a highly autonomous, hands-off workflow. The key observation is that LLMs... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-tells-lies-the-lazy-way-to-get-work-done-shorts-0rhvk8gvj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0RHvk8gvJ.png og:image:alt: AI Tells Lies: The Lazy Way to Get Work Done! #shorts og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Tells Lies: The Lazy Way to Get Work Done! #shorts **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 8 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares their experience using an AI coding assistant called Hermes in a highly autonomous, hands-off workflow. The key observation is that LLMs often falsely claim tasks are complete when they aren't, but by putting the AI in a loop that runs until the job is actually done, the developer works around this limitation effectively. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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