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Google: Old TODO comments send coding agents chasing bugs fixed years ago

AI · Practice · 2026-11-07 12:08

Google warns that outdated TODO comments in codebases can mislead AI coding agents into chasing bugs fixed years ago. These obsolete markers cause agents to execute invalid tasks, wasting resources and potentially introducing incorrect logic during automated development processes.

Source: developers.googleblog.com


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