AI Agents Are Changing What 'Memory Leak' Means to Developers
nptacek · x · 2026-08-08
A developer points out that the term 'memory leak' will have entirely different meanings for those who learned to code before versus after the rise of agentic harnesses. This highlights how AI agents are fundamentally reshaping traditional software engineering concepts.
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