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Agent-authored TODOs pile up faster than human ones, studies find
A dev.to post pairs a TechDebt 2026 crawl of 6,540 LLM-referencing comments with an MSR 2026 sample of 525 agent-authored SATD comments, and argues from them that the note-to-self lifecycle no longer holds.
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