Build the safety net before your coding agent's first edit
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Sooner or later a coding agent will do something you did not ask for. It will edit a file you never mentioned, run a command that changes more than it should, or make a failing test pass by weakening the test. Better instructions make that rarer. They never make it impossible. What you can control…
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- 2026-10-23 13:00 · DEV Community — AI
Build the safety net before your coding agent's first edit