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Why AI Coding Agents Crash at 3 AM: The Happy-Path Mirage & The Forced Continuity Defect

"The true goal of autonomous software engineering is not to replace the human—it is to transfer the pain from the engineer woken up at 3 AM to the droid that never sleeps." — Randal L. Schwartz 1.

  • Forced Continuity Defect stems from math differences between LLMs and software behavior.
  • Smooth continuous calculus vs discrete cliffs illustrate the disconnect in AI safety.
  • Scaling up AI models or RLHF fails to solve safety issues due to inherent model limitations.

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