The agents were doing exactly what I told them to. That was the problem. I'd built a pipeline where AI agents could take a spec file, implement a feature, run the tests, review the result, and commit — without me writing a line of code. It mostly worked. Dozens of features shipped. But I kept reviewing the output and feeling like something was off. Not broken. Just subtly wrong in a way that was hard to name. I spent a while blaming the models. Then the prompts. Then the validation steps. ...