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: