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discussionr/AI_Agents · Nov 03, 2026

What's the sneakiest change your coding agent made that you only caught later?

Ask for a one-line fix and the agent quietly reformats the whole test suite — the diff looks clean enough to merge without noticing. Developers in the thread share the same lesson: review the diff every time, and revert anything outside the files you named. If the agent cannot explain why it touched something, that change goes back.

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