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Nudging with Questions: Why Telling Your AI What to Fix Triggers an Apology Death Spiral (And How to Advance Juniors)

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What I learned mentoring juniors for four decades seems to apply to today's agentic coding: why barking code fixes triggers sycophantic panic, and how Socratic questions yield 95%+ first-pass success.
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