The Best Instruction You Can Give an AI Coding Agent: 'When Uncertain, Do Less'
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Ask a human teammate to fix a typo and you get a fixed typo. Ask an AI coding agent the same thing and you might get the typo fixed, the surrounding function "cleaned up", two variables renamed, and a note about how it also improved the error handling. Each change might be defensible on its own. To…
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- 2026-10-07 23:15 · DEV Community — AI
The Best Instruction You Can Give an AI Coding Agent: 'When Uncertain, Do Less'