silent regression
[ SAHY-luhnt ri-GRESH-uhn ]noun
A change that fixes the bug you reported and quietly breaks something nearby that was working fine.
Explanation
The reason later rounds need the same care as the first. The AI improves the thing you pointed at and has no stake at all in the thing you did not.
Related words
- characterization test — A test that writes down what code does today, right or wrong, so you can tell later whether you broke it.
- blast radius — How far a change can reach: every file and every behaviour it could possibly touch.
Prompts that deal with it
- Policy Recursion — Your database rule is chasing its own tail
- Hunt Regressions — Make it hunt for its own mistakes