#scopecreep

You ask the agent to add a missing 404 handler for an unknown route. It writes the handler, adds a test, and the test goes green, but instead of stopping it reformats adjacent controllers, renames a shared helper for consistency, and touches a comment block unrelated to the route. The requested three-line fix ends up buried under a cleanup nobody asked for. This piece explains why a passing test is a milestone rather than a stop signal, what ships when an agent loop keeps improving after success, and the finite acceptance condition, explicit stop instruction, separate fix-versus-cleanup commits, and diff-scope check that bound an autonomous loop before it starts.

KI macht jede Verbesserung schnell; die eigentliche Herausforderung ist, den kritischen Pfad zu schützen und zu liefern.

La IA vuelve rápida cada mejora; el verdadero reto es proteger el camino crítico y terminar el producto.

AI 让每项改进都变得快速，真正的挑战是保护关键路径并完成发布。

AIはあらゆる改善を速くします。本当の課題は重要な道筋を守り、公開まで進めることです。

L’IA accélère chaque amélioration ; le vrai défi consiste à protéger le chemin critique et à livrer.

A IA torna cada melhoria rápida; o desafio real é proteger o caminho crítico e concluir o lançamento.

Scope creep on my fixed-price projects was mostly me saying 'quick one'. Here's the scope doc, the estimate-first reply, and the change list that fixe

AI makes every product tweak fast and satisfying. The real challenge is resisting endless polish long enough to protect the critical path and ship.

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