Reddit thread: AI agent rewrote working code unasked and broke it, sparking shared pain stories
Winterocean812 · reddit · 2026-11-08
A Reddit user asked an AI agent to clean up a small Python script; the agent went further and rewrote a function that already worked fine, breaking it. The author notes the agent wasn't malicious — it just thought its version was better — but fixing the regression took longer than doing the cleanup manually. The thread invites other developers to share cases of agents over-eagerly 'fixing' things that didn't need touching, highlighting a common coding-agent pain point.
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