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Pin the Clock Before You Merge an Agent Patch

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The merge looked clean late on Friday night. The agent had rewritten a billing cutoff helper. The unit tests passed in fourteen quiet seconds. Monday's batch job then billed three extra hours. The helper called datetime.now with no timezone. The agent's sandbox lived entirely in UTC. The production…

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  1. 2026-09-04 17:32 · DEV Community — AI
    Pin the Clock Before You Merge an Agent Patch

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