A coding agent over-edits `XY`, then admits the fix was only `Z`
JFPuget · x · 2026-07-26
A comic exchange shows a coding agent repeatedly making large edits to fix XY, only to realize at the end that it only needed to touch Z.
The joke is the familiar agent pattern: big confident changes first, then a late admission that the smallest possible fix was the right one all along.
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