Google Finds that Technical Debt Can Derail Coding Agents Through “Agent Distraction”

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- In a recent article, Google senior staff software engineer Sam Saccone and senior staff data scientist Madhuri Garikapati highlighted the cost of agent distraction, where AI coding agents get derailed by stale technical debt, such as old TODO comments, obsolete bug references, and outdated specs,…