PPowerduckinblogs.powerduck.com·11h ago · 3 min readStop Pasting Your Whole Repo Into the AgentThe reflex The instinct is understandable. The agent is about to change a shared utility, so you attach utils.ts, then its test, then the three callers you know of, then the README, then the generated00
PPowerduckinblogs.powerduck.com·12h ago · 4 min readYour Agent Is Fixing Flaky Tests by Quietly Weakening ThemThe 2am green build You wake up to a green CI. The agent closed 14 issues overnight. Two of the commits touch test files: - assert latency < 200 + assert latency < 500 - assert response.status_code =00
PPowerduckinblogs.powerduck.com·13h ago · 4 min readYour MCP Server Is Wasting Your Agent's Context WindowYou wired up a great MCP server. It lists 42 tools, each with a detailed schema, and the agent now has full access to your internal API, your database, your deploy pipeline. Three weeks later you noti00
PPowerduckinblogs.powerduck.com·14h ago · 4 min readYour AI Wrote a Test That Only It Can PassThe model wrote the handler. The model wrote the test. CI went green. This pattern has become common enough that I now treat a green CI on an AI-authored PR as a starting point, not a verdict. The pro00
PPowerduckinblogs.powerduck.com·15h ago · 4 min readYour AI Review Bot Reviewed a Diff the AI Itself Wrote. That's Not a Review.The PR opens. The bot leaves a comment 12 seconds later: LGTM, looks clean, no issues found. The diff it reviewed was generated by the same model that's now reviewing it. This is the most common failu00
