my coding agent keeps making the same dumb mistake over and over

my coding agent kept making the same stupid mistake over and over

like it knew how to fix it
but just... didn’t remember

it would:

• fail
  
• try something
  
• fix it
  
• then hit a similar issue later and repeat everything again
  

so I tried something simple:

→ when a fix works, store it as a pattern
→ next time a similar failure shows up, just reuse it

this already cuts a lot of loops

but now there’s a weird problem:

sometimes it overgeneralizes and applies the wrong fix in the wrong place

feels very human tbh

now I’m stuck between:

• not forgetting
  
• vs not overfitting to past failures
  

anyone else run into this with agent loops?