When Your AI Duplicates Every Field: A Story About Idempotency
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I had a form with 12 fields. Then my Claude Desktop session crashed. I restarted it, asked Claude to "continue building the form," and ended up with 24 fields. Half of them were exact duplicates — same IDs, same titles, same types. The form rendered with two "Email" fields, two "Name" fields, and two of every radio button. This is the story of how field_add isn't idempotent, why that matters when an AI is driving, and the pattern I adopted to fix it. Update (v0.2.0) : The field_add command is…
1Key Takeaways
- Then my Claude Desktop session crashed.
- I restarted it, asked Claude to "continue building the form," and ended up with 24 fields.
- Half of them were exact duplicates — same IDs, same titles, same types.
- The form rendered with two "Email" fields, two "Name" fields, and two of every radio button.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that then my Claude Desktop session crashed.
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