After a year of agent-driven coding, the failure modes are still the same
PuzzleheadedMenu2454 · reddit · 2026-07-25
After a year of building a real product with AI agents writing most of the code, the author says the hype skips the failure modes.
The recurring problems are:
- confidently wrong code that looks fine but is subtly broken
- losing consistency across files and architecture
- failing to explain why a requested change is the wrong move
- weak handling of security, edge cases, and auth corners
- making subtle bugs worse while trying to fix them
- not knowing when to stop and back up
The takeaway is that agents are still useful, but the job shifts from typing to catching these failure modes before they ship.
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