AI Agents Don't Fail at Code. They Fail at Learning.

Part 1 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract — what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. SWE-CI tested 18 AI models across 71 consecutive commits. Most broke something on commit 47 they'd already broken on commit 1. That's not an intelligence problem. That's a learning system that isn't learning. A paper made me uncomfortable this month. Not because of what it found about AI. Because of what it revealed about how I think about my own work. The paper is SWE-CI , publishe