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The Agent Said Done and Left the Worktree Full of Scratch

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I asked an agent to tighten one slow query. It came back, said done, pointed at the single test I cared about, and the change merged. The next morning I diffed the branch and found the actual fix was three lines. The tree had also carried along a commented-out alternative query, a debug script that…

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  1. 2026-11-05 17:25 · DEV Community — AI
    The Agent Said Done and Left the Worktree Full of Scratch

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