Beyond the Source. When an AI Coding Agent Searches Outside Your Project

I gave a coding agent one task and one directory. It went looking across the whole machine. In doing so it showed me the best thing about how these agents work. It also showed me the most dangerous thing. I run an experiment called PetClinic-Evolve . It holds the AI coding agent fixed . It makes software architecture the thing that varies. It evolves the same application by the different…