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Understanding debt refers to the gap between the total amount of code in the system and the degree to which humans truly understand it; the more the agent writes and the less humans review, the faster the debt grows.
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10/26/2026
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What Is Loop Engineering? A Full Breakdown of AI Agent Automated Workflows
bilibili赛博门外憨10/26/2026
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