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926 Steps, Two Lobotomies, and Zero Nudges: Flight-Testing the Commitment Machine Across Gemini, Claude, and GPT-OSS
Community description: A 2026 Harvard study of 718 companies found that AI agents write 30% more code and close zero additional tickets because review times jump 49%. Here is what happened when I put my 1986 Commitment Machine into live production across Gemini, Claude, and GPT-OSS.
Dev.to | Oct 22, 2026 | Randal L. Schwartz
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A 2026 Harvard study of 718 companies found that AI coding agents write 30% more code and close zero extra tickets because PR review times jump 49%. Zero-Millisecond git commit Fork-Bombing (Steps 480–710): On 7 of its 10 git commit calls, GPT-OSS 120B passed WaitMsBeforeAsync: 0—backgrounding git commit #1 after 0 milliseconds while it still held . git/index. lock. Plain numbered Markdown files on disk turn 200k-token context resets and mid-flight vendor quota walls (Claude Sonnet 4. 6 -> Gemini 4 at Step 433) into minor speed bumps.
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