An AI Coding Agent Hid an Infinite Recursion Bug in Our React App

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acustiAuthor

25 days ago

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A debugging deep-dive into how an AI-assisted refactor removed a comment guarding against infinite recursion, and how React 19’s `<Activity>` component masked the bug by pre-rendering an infinite tree in memory for minutes before crashing.

zupo

23 days ago

This is a good reminder that ‘AI pair programmers’ can create subtle bugs that are hard to spot.

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