When AI Code Fails Review, Fix the Loop - Dev Leader Weekly 162

TL; DR:

Fix the rules, not just the patch.
Guide good behavior. Gate bad behavior.
Separate unfinished code from blocked verification.
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The Agent Wrote It. The Reviewer Said No.

What do you do when an agent writes the code, puts it up for review, and a human says, "We can't integrate this"?

I got a submitted question about exactly that. How do you correct the process? How do you stop the same assumptions from carrying into the next change?

My answer isn't just to tell the agent to try harder.

I want to understand how it got there. Did it miss a rule? Was the rule ambiguous? Did my checks leave a gap? Or did it spend all its time fighting the process instead of finishing the work?

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