Maintaining intent in large codebases with agents: The Arrow of Intent

> Modern AI coding agents aren’t really writing bugs anymore. What they do write are intent gaps—places where they assumed I meant something different than I did.

Seriously?

I asked Claude to count matching lines in a text file. When I disputed the nonsensical result, Claude replied "You're right! I'll repeat without splitting at column 72".

Claude didn't assume my meaning. It simply parotted some similarly described but unsuitable code it scraped from the web.