What happens when an AI burns out

说明与用途

AI 连续工作两天后开始产生错误的代码更改。作者停止了该会话，要求其记录交接笔记，然后在干净的工作树上启动新的会话并提供这些笔记。新会话完成了迁移，修复了错误并成功合并了更改。

问题

An AI assistant running for two days without breaks began producing incorrect code changes, causing potential damage to a critical codebase.

结果

The migration was completed successfully, a real bug was fixed, and the codebase was merged without damage.

工作流

• 1. Start a single Claude session for the migration. 2. After two days, notice the AI making incorrect changes. 3. Stop the session and ask it to write handover notes. 4. Start a new session on a clean worktree with a different model. 5. Provide the handover notes to the new session. 6. Let the new session complete the migration and fix bugs. 7. Merge the changes and thank the AI.

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I was moving go-tool-base onto the rewritten go/config, which is a big job with a lot of small moving parts, and I'd set a single Claude session going on it.

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It started reaching in the wrong places. I found myself typing "wait... where are you even looking", because it had the initialisers completely backwards.

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So I took it off the job, and I did it the way I'd want it done to me.

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The new session started in its own clean worktree, on a different model, and the first thing I said to it was that we were picking up from a previous session that had gone on too long and was getting very confused and mangling code.

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It finished the migration overnight, found and fixed a real bug in how a missing config file got handled along the way, and the whole lot merged the next morning.

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