On 27 July I opened a project I'd been building with Claude Code and found three things true at once:

a card had carried a null commit for two days

the spec held nine false statements

five hundred lines had been written against a card still sitting in Backlog, because nobody called start

None of that was the agent writing bad code. The code was fine. It was the agent's record of the code that had quietly come apart, and I hadn't noticed because there was nothing to notice with.