--- title: Why AI Coding Agents Crash at 3 AM: The Happy-Path Mirage & The Forced Continuity Defect published: true description: Why LLMs fail in production, why "more RLHF" cannot fix it, and how transferring 3 AM pager-duty trauma gives autonomous coding agents real survival instincts. tags: ai, p...
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