Resurrect dead coding agents: reload the transcript and interrogate the model on why it failed
JoshuaJosephson · reddit · 2026-09-08
A developer shares a debugging trick: when a coding agent goes off the rails, reload its previous transcript and ask the model to explain why it made those choices. He found the model often gives surprisingly insightful answers, calling it 'bringing dead workers back to interrogate them adversarially.'
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