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The Agent Rewrote a Shared Helper and Changed Its Return Shape for Every Caller

Quick answer: An agent is surprisingly good at a local change and surprisingly dangerous at a shared one. Give it a helper used across the codebase and ask for a small tweak, and it will often change the function's return shape to make the one call site it can see work, while every other caller qui…

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  1. 2026-11-01 13:35 · DEV Community — AI
    The Agent Rewrote a Shared Helper and Changed Its Return Shape for Every Caller

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