AI coding agents naturally optimize for 'ship the commit,' which means skipping specs, tests, security reviews, and the engineering practices that make software reliable. The failure mode is real: a build-session LLM produces code that compiles and is wrong. Production reliability isn't a default behavior of agents — it has to be explicitly installed through structured workflows that encode senior engineer judgment.
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