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Why AI Coding Agents Crash at 3 AM: The Happy-Path Mirage & The Forced Continuity Defect

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"The true goal of autonomous software engineering is not to replace the human—it is to transfer the pain from the engineer woken up at 3 AM to the droid that never sleeps." — Randal L. Schwartz 1. The Midnight PagerDuty Test There is an old, unwritten law among veteran software engineers: never jud…

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  1. 2026-09-19 01:56 · DEV Community — AI
    Why AI Coding Agents Crash at 3 AM: The Happy-Path Mirage & The Forced Continuity Defect

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