An agent repeats its own history: whatever it did on the last change — ran the tests or skipped them — is what it will do on the next one, because it is predicting the next message in the conversation.

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• You have to keep enough understanding of how a system works to fix it yourself, because the alternative is hoping and praying the agent can figure it out. AOAddy Osmani19 Aug 2026similar wording
• A coding agent does not learn from its mistakes the way a person does -- it repeats the same error indefinitely unless a human notices and writes it down. MZMario Zechner25 Mar 2026similar wording
• Reading every agent trajectory has stopped being possible, and what replaces it is demanding an end-to-end account of the decisions that were made. AOAddy Osmani19 Aug 2026similar wording
• The code today’s models and agents write is very hard to follow: you get better performance without knowing why, and no way to fix it when it breaks. ESElizabeth Stone19 Jul 2026similar wording
• Long-running agents fail because they drift off the distribution they were trained on, and degrade further the farther out they get. JDJeff Dean30 Jul 2026similar wording

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