Why Your AI Coding CLI Keeps Dropping Tools Mid-Task
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You're three steps into a refactor. Your AI coding assistant just read the file, identified the problem, and started writing the fix. Then... nothing. The tool call fails silently, or worse, it hallucinates a file path that doesn't exist and confidently tells you it's done. I've been there more times than I'd like to admit. Whether you're using an open-source AI coding CLI or a commercial one, tool execution failures are the single most frustrating class of bugs in this space. Let's dig into wh