The Patch That Passed Review and Broke the Build: A Debugging Retrospective
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At 09:14 on a Tuesday, the alert page lit up with a spike of HTTP 500s on the catalog endpoint, and the patch responsible had merged the previous Friday with a green build and an approving review. The uncomfortable detail was that the patch had been generated by a coding agent, and its diff looked…
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The Patch That Passed Review and Broke the Build: A Debugging Retrospective