What Survived the Pairing: An Invariant Gate for a Stateless Coding Agent
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The mid-level engineer had already let the agent rewrite retryPayment() . The new patch added a background worker, a Redis key, and a folder named infra/async . None of that was on the ticket. The senior put a hand on the trackpad and stopped the apply before the worktree could become a pull reques…
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What Survived the Pairing: An Invariant Gate for a Stateless Coding Agent