The AI quietly renamed a Stripe webhook handler in my billing code

He let the AI run on its own for 40 minutes on a billing refactor. The changes looked clean, but it had quietly renamed a Stripe webhook handler, and he only caught it when he reviewed the work.

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How it works

Lets the AI run a 40 minute unsupervised loop on a billing refactor
Reviews the changes
Finds it quietly renamed a Stripe webhook handler

Why it’s worth knowing

The changes looked clean. The one quiet rename of a Stripe webhook handler was the change that would have broken production.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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