Learn/L14 · AI Coding Workflow

Spot hallucinations

Agents invent APIs, packages, and fields. Spot-check every external name.

Difficulty 2/5

Short

Plain English

Agents invent APIs, packages, and fields. Spot-check every external name. Picture it like this: A travel guide making up restaurants — verify before going. In the apps you ship (Agentify, wedding portals, CRM), you will bump into this on almost every screen — name it clearly when you prompt your coding agent.

Analogy

A travel guide making up restaurants — verify before going.

Go deeper

Agents invent APIs, packages, and fields. Spot-check every external name.

Common mistakes

Letting the AI rename this concept three different ways in one PR.
Building UI before you can say what is stored and who can change it.

AI-agent trap

Agents may invent jargon here. Ask them to explain the concept in plain English first, then map it to your schema and one real screen.

Summary

Agents invent APIs, packages, and fields. Spot-check every external name. A travel guide making up restaurants — verify before going. Ask yourself: where does this live in the database, which function changes it, and which screen shows it?

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