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Coding agents pad their diffs to look thorough, and the padding is where the bugs hide

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Ask an agent to fix one bug and look at what comes back: the fix, plus a reformatted block it did not need to touch, plus a "while I was here" refactor, plus a new helper that pulled in a dependency. The fix is usually fine. The padding is what breaks prod, because nobody reviews the parts of a dif…

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  1. 2026-09-11 09:47 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    Coding agents pad their diffs to look thorough, and the padding is where the bugs hide

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