Coding agent failures may start with weak specs
failures may not always come from weak models. Human often fill in missing details from meetings, , product judgment, and team habits.
A usually does not have that . When a ticket is vague, it may still guess, write code, and make the result look confident.
The needed skill may be less about and more about preparing better . A useful work packet should state the problem, what must not change, which files or areas are in scope, which matter, what counts as done, and what the agent should ask before changing code.
Key points
- failures can come from unclear specs, not only from model limits.
- Human use knowledge that agents often lack.
- A vague ticket can make an agent guess and produce confident-looking code.
- Better should include scope, limits, , and .
- Clearer specs can reduce rework, which can lower token use and cost.