An agent rewrote a retry helper over a TODO from 2019: I counted 189 stale markers before the next run
Last Tuesday I gave a coding agent one task on a Node service I have read access to: add an optional source field to a POST endpoint and persist it. Two files and a migration. The pull request that came back touched 14 files and included a rewritten retry helper nobody had asked about. I went looki…
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- 2026-11-11 23:22 · DEV Community — AI
An agent rewrote a retry helper over a TODO from 2019: I counted 189 stale markers before the next run