u/ExperienceFull7561

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Been using coding agents heavily for a few months and keep hitting the same thing: I ask the agent to fix or add one thing, and somewhere in the diff it quietly reverses a decision I'd settled earlier — swaps an enum value back, re-introduces a pattern we'd deliberately dropped, changes a config we'd locked. Nothing errors. The code looks clean. I only catch it later, sometimes much later.

Curious how common this is and how people handle it:

• Does this happen to you, or am I just bad at prompting?
• How do you stop it — bigger context files, rules files (Cursor/Claude), pre-commit checks, just careful diff review, something else?
• For the people doing it with agents at work: is "the agent broke a thing we'd decided" a real recurring cost, or noise?

Trying to figure out if this is a me-problem or a real pattern. Genuinely just want to hear how others deal with it — not pitching anything.