Agent approved its own pagination bug — dev switches to separate writer/reviewer agents
DeliveryEven8591 · reddit · 2026-08-20
- An agent modified pagination code in a sync job; tests passed and the PR looked fine, but staging stalled at exactly 100 records because the cursor wasn't updating.
- The funny part: he had the same agent review its own change before merging — it found nothing wrong with its own code.
- Since then he stopped letting the writer review itself: he opens a separate MiniMax M3 session, drops in the diff plus the repo context it needs, and asks it to look for ways the change could fail — first try it caught two null cases he'd missed.
- He asks the community whether others run writer/reviewer with separate agents, and whether the reviewer also runs tests or just inspects the diff.
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