Running coder and reviewer AI sessions in a loop creates endless new issues — a token-burning machine
kazunori_279 · x · 2026-09-08
The author ran coder and reviewer sessions of the same model in a human-free loop via GitHub issues. Work density rose, but the reviewer kept digging into micro-problems, spawning endless new issues and even attempting PRs to other repos. His takeaway: humans must steer with "don't do that, do this first" — otherwise agents generate infinite new work and become token-burning machines. He asks: does this phenomenon have a name?
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