Your coding agent's prompt often contains old versions of files it already edited. Here's what I measured, and what I learned trying to fix it
Something I didn't appreciate until I measured it: when Claude Code (or any agent) reads a file and later edits it, the original read usually stays in the conversation. Every following request carries the old code next to a file that no longer matches it. I measured this on 67,074 public OpenHands…
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