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Better Prompts Aren't Enough for Reliable AI CodingWhen a coding agent gives you a confident answer, it's easy to treat that confidence as evidence. I learned that on SkillPass, one of my open-source projects. An agent told me the GitHub check on a pu6 min read·bradtraversy.hashnode.devOct 5
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