[rtpg]

I legit think this is the biggest danger with velocity-focused usage of these tools. Good patterns are easy to use and (importantly!) work! So the 32nd usage of a good pattern will likely be smooth.

The first (and maybe even second) usage of a gnarly, badly thought out pattern might work fine. But you're only a couple steps away from if statement soup. And in the world where your agent's life is built around "getting the tests to pass", you can quickly find it doing _very_ gnarly things to "fix" issues.

[sroussey]

I’ve seen ai coding agents spin out and create 1_000 line changesets that I have to stop before they are 10_000. And then I look at the problem and change one line instead.