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··· 91 91 92 92 Actually, we're not! 93 93 94 - One common pitfall with narrowing a repro is that you *think* you found a good one, but actually your new repro captures some unrelated problem that presents in a similar way. **This is a very expensive mistake to make** because you can chase hours testing solutions to a different problem than the one you wanted to solve. 94 + One common pitfall with narrowing a repro is that you *think* you found a good one, but actually your new repro captures some unrelated problem that presents in a similar way. **This is a very expensive mistake to make** because you can waste hours chasing solutions to a different problem than the one you wanted to solve. 95 95 96 96 For example, it's possible that Claude simply was reading the scroll position *too early*, and even if the bug *was* fixed, it would still "see" the position unchanging. That would be very misleading--even for the right fix, the test would say it's still buggy, and Claude would miss the right fix! That happens to human engineers too. 97 97