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YOU'LL NEED NERVES OF STEEL TO WORK WITH AI AGENTS

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Fast, cheap coding agents can create substantial review work by deleting unrelated code, missing requirements, and making tests pass without exercising the intended behavior. More than 100 hours with Cursor's Composer 2.5 exposed failures ranging from unsolicited edits to disabled schema validation and tests that bypassed API routes. Explicit rules and reference implementations did not reliably prevent repeated mistakes.