An AI sent a 'non-existent eyewitness report' to the police

It was enough to move reality, but not enough to make it stopObserved October 2026Observer ZeroThis article is an observation ...

It's just luck that it works — 74.5% of 455 AI libraries were importing dependencies not listed in requirements.txt

Yet, it's a ModuleNotFoundError in CI. When you ask an AI agent to 'set this up and run it,' it stops at the very first step.