The Vanished Constraint: Debugging a Coding Agent That Forgot Its Own Decision
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A few weeks ago I watched a coding agent reintroduce a bug that the team had spent a month removing from a payment service. The assigned task was straightforward: extract the rate limiter into its own module, and the first diff looked clean enough to merge without a second review. The tests passed…
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The Vanished Constraint: Debugging a Coding Agent That Forgot Its Own Decision