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Coding agents write a new helper instead of finding the one you already have

Ask an agent to format a date, parse a price, retry a request. It writes a fresh function for it, right there in the file it's editing. Meanwhile the repo already has formatDate in utils, used in forty places, with the timezone fix you spent a day on last spring. Now you have two. The new one doesn…

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  1. 2026-09-29 15:18 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    Coding agents write a new helper instead of finding the one you already have

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