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Coding agents fix bugs where the error shows up, not where it starts

Give an agent a stack trace and watch where the fix lands. Almost always on the line that threw. A null check, a default value, a try/except, an early return. The error goes away, the tests pass, and the bad value that caused it is still being created somewhere upstream, now silently handled instea…

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  1. 2026-09-27 11:42 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    Coding agents fix bugs where the error shows up, not where it starts

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