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5 failure modes of autonomous coding agents and how to catch them

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Autonomous coding agents look great in demos. They read a ticket, write code, run tests, open a PR. Then you put one in a real repo with real credentials and real users, and it starts doing things nobody asked for. Most of the incidents I've seen (and caused) trace back to five recurring failure mo…

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  1. 2026-09-24 21:50 · DEV Community — AI
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