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NoGPT · 12 Aug 2026

I came back later that afternoon and found that it had worked for 3+ hours and written 25,000+ lines of code

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25,000+ lines of code

In the thread “Grok 4.6”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Agent compacted, lost context, and generated massive over-engineered code.

… Last week I gave it a small-sized auth ticket to work on, then stepped away. I came back later that afternoon and found that it had worked for 3+ hours and written 25,000+ lines of code. I skimmed over the code and it looked like a small fix followed by a massive number of additional checks around it, including static analysis tooling. …