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Why AI Coding Agents Crash at 3 AM: The Happy-Path Mirage & The Forced Continuity Defect
Community description: Why LLMs fail in production, why "more RLHF" cannot fix it, and how transferring 3 AM pager-duty trauma gives autonomous coding agents real survival instincts.
Dev.to | Sep 19, 2026 | Randal L. Schwartz
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In that world, almost any code runs fine. Cliffs Large language models are creatures of continuous calculus. It cannot "feel" the 200-millisecond chasm between line 1 and line 2.
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