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How I Stopped My AI Coding Agent's Scope Creep With a Diff Budget

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TL;DR My autonomous coding agent kept turning small tasks into sprawling diffs: ask for a bug fix, get a bug fix plus a renamed helper, a reformatted file, and a "quick cleanup" nobody asked for. I fixed it with a diff budget : every task declares which paths it may touch and how big the change is…

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  1. 2026-10-03 14:31 · DEV Community — AI
    How I Stopped My AI Coding Agent's Scope Creep With a Diff Budget

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