Coding Agent's Small Fix Sprawls Across 40 Files, Causing Timezone Incident

A developer shared how a coding agent turned a minor date-format fix into a 40-file PR that touched a shared util, corrupting timezone handling in nightly exports for two days before a customer manager noticed. The team relied on blast radius tooling to contain the damage.

2026-10-31 ~ 2026-10-31 · 2 related posts

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