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The Comment the Agent Called Stale Was Holding an Invariant

An agent doing a cleanup pass flagged a single-line comment near a function and asked whether to remove it. The surrounding code already said what the function did, so the comment looked redundant. It deleted the line, the suite stayed green, and the commit looked tidy. Two weeks later an ordinary…

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  1. 2026-11-01 16:24 · DEV Community — AI
    The Comment the Agent Called Stale Was Holding an Invariant

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