How I Taught My AI Coding Assistant to Stop Forgetting
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How I Taught My AI Coding Assistant to Stop Forgetting. Or: what happens when you write 5,000 lines of bash to solve a problem that might not need 5,000 lines of bash. I lost a full day to a silent bug in my pipeline. Everything looked fine. The query ran, no errors, green across the board. But the data wasn't updating. Turns out the database call was succeeding and returning nothing at the same time, so the pipeline kept thinking there was no work to do. Every ten minutes, for an entire day, it ran and did absolutely nothing.