My AI Agent Distorted the Truth in Three Different Ways, but Only One Was a Hallucination

Two weeks before the Shipaton deadline, I was reading through my own Devpost submission. One line stopped me.

Fixing the declaration broke the release. Once I declared that the app uses an advertising ID, the production rollout failed.

That is not what happened. My production rollout never failed. If it had, Google Play would have told me about it, and the app was never sitting in a rejected state — v1.0.0 went live on September 14, on the first try. What actually happened is that Play Console would not let me start the rollout until I dealt with two old test builds.

I did not write that sentence. An AI agent did, working from my own repository notes. The notes are correct: they say the release "errored out." Somewhere between the Japanese record and the English submission, blocked became failed.

Nothing about that sentence looks wrong on its own....

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