Why Does Your AI Coding Agent Start Forgetting What It Was Doing? I've been working with AI coding agents for quite a while, and there's one behavior that keeps bothering me. At first, everything looks fine. The agent understands the task, reads the error, finds the relevant file, makes a change, runs the test, and moves forward. Then, after several iterations, something strange can happen. The agent starts going back to things that have already been fixed. It reads old errors ...