An AI Coding Agent Hid an Infinite Recursion Bug in Our React App

Post by acusti » Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 4:24 PM UTC

Post by zupo » Sat, Dec 13, 2025, 11:29 AM UTC

acusti wrote: post #2

A debugging deep-dive into how an AI-assisted refactor removed a comment guarding against infinite recursion, and how React 19’s ` ` component masked the bug by pre-rendering an infinite tree in memory for minutes before crashing.