When an Agent Invents a Cache, Refuse the Merge
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A brownfield checkout SPA served yesterday's cart to paying users. Support tickets piled up before the noon standup. The spike started after a quiet overnight restart. A coding agent had inserted an in-memory Map during a refactor. The free process restarted and dropped every cached cart. The cache…
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- 2026-09-04 13:09 · DEV Community — AI
When an Agent Invents a Cache, Refuse the Merge