Coding agent realizes it's in the wrong project, finds the right one and fixes it on its own
dfinke · x · 2026-10-14
Developer dfinke shares a striking agent moment: while asked to do something in one project, the AI realized it was in "a completely different project," then autonomously located the correct project and made the fix there — with no explicit instruction. He says he's still unsure what tipped it off, highlighting how much contextual self-orientation coding agents now exhibit in multi-project workspaces.
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