Developer: I asked my AI harness to fix a bug and it went off searching
dfinke · x · 2026-10-14
dfinke describes asking his AI coding harness to fix something semi-complicated: "No reason to think anything was weird" — yet the agent went off on an unnecessary search. Same anecdote as his follow-up mocking the agent's "Located the target component" message.
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