Our AI Coding Agent Burned Real Money Fixing a Bug a Human Would Have Caught in Five Minutes
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We gave an autonomous coding agent a real ticket: an off-by-one error in a pagination function, the kind of bug a mid-level engineer finds in about five minutes by reading the loop condition once. The agent took the ticket, read the codebase, formed a hypothesis, wrote a fix, ran the test suite, wa…
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- 2026-10-10 15:00 · DEV Community — AI
Our AI Coding Agent Burned Real Money Fixing a Bug a Human Would Have Caught in Five Minutes