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AI Agent Ships 3 PRs but Needs 40% Correction Rate
An AI agent submitted three pull requests to an open-source project in 75 minutes of active work, generating about 3,500 lines of code. However, 12 of the human's 30 messages were corrections, a 40% steering rate. The errors clustered around workflow violations and context retrieval failures, not reasoning.
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The story highlights that even successful AI coding sessions require heavy human oversight, and the real bottleneck is not model intelligence but process design and context retrieval.
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My Agent Shipped 3 PRs in an Evening. 40% of My Messages Were Corrections. →
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