The Test That Failed

Last weekend, I pointed an AI agent at my own blog and asked it a simple question about an article I’d just published — my hands-on experiment with self-reflection on Amazon Bedrock [12]: “What scored 3/15 and why?”

The agent received 29,099 bytes of HTML. After stripping navigation, CSS, scripts, headers, and footers, only about 4,600 characters of actual content remained — 69% of the response was noise. The agent consumed 6,083 input tokens, then gave a confused answer about “personal growth.” It couldn’t find the article content buried in the markup.