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Why AI agents keep fixing things that aren't broken
An engineer's Claude Code agents repeatedly broke prompt submission by replacing Enter with backslash-Enter, which inserts newlines instead. The fix was based on plausible reasoning but was wrong, and every fresh agent session re-derived the same error. The article argues that AI systems need documented refuted hypotheses, not just correct answers.
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A sharp, grounded look at a real operational pitfall of AI agents—their lack of episodic memory means they repeat mistakes that humans would learn from once.
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