Think Longer, Act Smarter: Why Coding Agents Need Behavior-Preserving Reasoning
Software agents fail in a familiar way. They do not always fail because they are stupid. Sometimes they fail because they are busy. They search too widely, inspect too much, edit too early, revise the wrong file, run out of context, and then collapse under the weight of their own half-formed investigation. In enterprise language: they generate activity before they stabilize a diagnosis. We have seen humans do this too, usually in Slack threads with too many tabs open. The machines are catching up nicely. ...