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Articles tagged with #agentic
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.
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.
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.
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.
