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Cheap coding agents spark a fight over who pays the review bill
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Coding-agent review labor debate
News Nov 5, 2026
A November 2026 practitioner debate about unintended edits, test integrity and the human review cost of inexpensive coding agents.
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A November 4 Orchid Files essay focusing on Composer 2.5 prompted a November 5 Hacker News discussion about unintended code deletion, weakened tests, model selection and workflow checkpoints. The source consists of practitioner accounts rather than a controlled benchmark or independently reproduced failure study.