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title: "Discussion on \"The Agent Re-formatted the Whole File and Buried Its Own Change\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"The Agent Re-formatted the Whole File and Buried Its Own Change\". A one-function null fix came back as a 412-line PR: the behavioral change was one of twelve diff chunks, buried under a formatter that re-quote, re-indented, and re-commas the whole legacy file. Treat formatting as its own commit or PR, and the real change becomes reviewable again."
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# [The Agent Re-formatted the Whole File and Buried Its Own Change](https://blogs.powerduck.com/agent-reformatted-whole-file-buried-diff?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A one-function null fix came back as a 412-line PR: the behavioral change was one of twelve diff chunks, buried under a formatter that re-quote, re-indented, and re-commas the whole legacy file. Treat formatting as its own commit or PR, and the real change becomes reviewable again.

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