If your coding agent broke things, ask it to explain the code first
panickssery · x · 2026-10-30
Developers discuss coding-agent reliability in complex production environments: Claude sometimes ships changes that don't fix the real issue, and the practical advice is to ask the model to explain the code to you to verify it actually understands the problem before trusting its fix.
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