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Developer's AI citation checker flawed by own code, not AI hallucinations

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A developer built an AI research agent that requires claims to be backed by exact quotes from cited sources, with a deterministic code-based checker to verify these citations. Initially, the checker rejected nearly half of the agent's claims, leading the developer to believe the AI was fabricating information. However, upon investigation, the developer discovered that bugs in their own HTML-to-text parsing and quote-matching logic were causing false negatives, not AI hallucinations. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical importance of robust data processing and verification layers when evaluating AI-generated content.

RANK_REASON Developer's personal project detailing a bug in their own citation-checking code.

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Developer's AI citation checker flawed by own code, not AI hallucinations

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Ships Itself ·

    My AI agent's citations were fine. My citation checker was the liar.

    <p>I built a research agent that has to quote its sources, and a gate — plain code, no model involved — that checks every quote actually appears in the page it cites.</p> <p>Then I ran 20 questions through it and the gate struck out 22 of 47 claims. Nearly half.</p> <p>I was plea…

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