Study finds coding agents act on stray TODO comments

Shows real coding-agent overhead from unintended prompts, informing agent design and safety.

An analysis of over 913,000 coding agent sessions finds 13% expose agents to inline TODO(b/...) comments; agents act on them in 6% of cases, 83% unprompted, adding 70% more steps and 77% more tokens.

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