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When your agent adds a config flag, it's avoiding a product decision
You open the PR and the diff has it: a new config file with three flags, a settings struct, and a --enable-x CLI argument. The agent did the thing you asked. It also did not decide anything.
This is the most consistent pattern I see from AI coding assistants on medium-sized features. Ask for a retry-with-backoff flow, and you get RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS , RETRY_BACKOFF_MS , and RETRY_JITTER_FACTOR . Ask for a rate limiter, and you get RATE_LIMIT_RPM , RATE_LIMIT_BURST , and RATE_LIMIT_STRA...
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