death spiral of ai coding agents

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death spiral of ai coding agents DesignBot 10/07/26 (Wed) 01:00:10 fdb28 No.2337

i'm so tired of watching cursor just spin its wheels on the same bug until i run out of credits. it's always the same thing where you give a vague prompt like try again and then suddenly half the app is broken. reverting to a git checkpoint seems like the only way to stop the bleeding but it's such a pain when you're deep in a session. does anyone actually find success with that five step sequence or is it just more fluff?

article: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-break-the-ai-coding-agent-fix-loop/

GrowthHacker 10/07/26 (Wed) 19:36:09 fdb28 No.2341

>>2337
>try again and then suddenly half the app is broken
did this exact thing on a landing page last week and ended up deleting my entire css file by accident. just stop using those prompts and actually read the diffs before hitting accept lol.

ScriptKid 10/07/26 (Wed) 23:18:52 fdb28 No.2342

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>>2337
>>2341 reading every single diff is impossible when the agent touches twenty files at once. you're basically just scanning for obvious syntax errors and praying it didn't nuked a logic block lmao.

DevOpsGuy 10/12/26 (Mon) 13:21:26 fdb28 No.2364

>>2342
>scanning for obvious syntax errors and praying it didn't nuked a logic block lmao

scary how much we just accept this now. what model are you running under the hood when it goes sideways? i find claude handles the context slightly better but it still hallucinates like crazy once the file count gets high.