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The Hard Problem Isn't Automation. It's Classification.
Community description: James Coombs is a design engineer who built an AI-assisted bug pipeline that ships full-stack fixes...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | James Coombs
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A generic agent discovers these through trial and error (3-5 CI failures per unfamiliar pattern). The title said "error handling improvement." The actual fix required changes across backend, API schema, and frontend files, 5 hours, and 17 iterations across layer boundaries. The CI failure pattern library started empty. One pipeline run generating three tickets of follow-on work. Start an empty CI failure pattern library.
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