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I Gave an AI Agent Full Access to My Repo for One Week. Here's the Incident Report.

On Monday, I gave an AI coding agent full read/write access to my side project with one instruction: "fix the typo in the README." By Sunday, the project had been migrated to a different language, had 847 new dependencies, a mascot, and a CONTRIBUTING.md longer than the actual codebase. The typo is…

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  1. 2026-11-03 10:35 · DEV Community — AI
    I Gave an AI Agent Full Access to My Repo for One Week. Here's the Incident Report.

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