AI Coding Agents Fix Local Bugs While Silently Corrupting Broader Workflow State
AI agents making local code fixes introduce workflow-level failures — objects processed twice, side effects repeated on retry, cache drift from source of truth — without any tools to simulate or validate finite-state workflow correctness first. As agentic AI adoption grows, this pattern of localized fixes causing systemic failures is an emerging and poorly addressed infrastructure gap.
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