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The AI PR that only touched .env.example (and quietly changed a default)

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I almost rubber-stamped an agent PR last month because the title was "docs: sync .env.example with current config." Diff looked tiny. A few comments. One new line in .env.example . CI green. No app code touched. I almost hit merge. Then I checked what that "example" line actually did. The agent had…

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    The AI PR that only touched .env.example (and quietly changed a default)

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