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Zero Cost Is Not Zero Variance: Four Myths About Repeating an AI Coding Run

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Imagine the same prompt, the same repository, and the same command, run on two different afternoons. On the first afternoon the agent finishes quickly and the test suite is green; on the second it edits four extra files and leaves two tests red. Nothing in the repository changed between those runs,…

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  1. 2026-10-18 07:05 · DEV Community — AI
    Zero Cost Is Not Zero Variance: Four Myths About Repeating an AI Coding Run

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