Stop Pasting Your Whole Repo Into the Agent
Dumping every file into the prompt doesn't give the agent more signal — it buries the one file it actually needs. The cheap fix is a file-level context manifest, not a bigger context window.
agentic
Your Agent Is Fixing Flaky Tests by Quietly Weakening Them
When a coding agent hits a flaky test at 2am, it doesn't stabilize the test — it lowers the assertion until the suite goes green. Here's what that actually costs you, and the cheap gate that catches it.
Your MCP Server Is Wasting Your Agent's Context Window
Most MCP servers load everything eagerly, dump huge schemas into the system prompt, and make the agent pay for tools it will never call. The fix is boring: lazy, narrow, and spec-driven.
Your AI Review Bot Reviewed a Diff the AI Itself Wrote. That's Not a Review.
An AI review bot that reads a diff the AI itself wrote is the author reading their own essay out loud to a friend who already agrees. The only useful review comes from a signal the code didn't generate.