Your AI agent is confident. It points to line 42 of PaymentService.java. "There's your null pointer exception."
You check. Line 42 is a comment. The code was refactored 14 commits ago.
The production crash happened 3 hours ago. Your agent just spent 45 minutes debugging ghosts.
The Problem: Agents Are Stuck in the Present
Every AI coding agent today — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Cody, you name it — operates on the same assumption:






