Your agent just scaffolded a project from 2020
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Waldek Mastykarz
23d ago
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MicrosoftYour agent just scaffolded a project from 2020microsoft.comYour agent ran a scaffold command. Project generated, dependencies resolved, no errors. Everything looks fine. Except it’s based on the project structure from 2020, and neither you nor the agent noticed. How npx picks the right-but-wrong version When an agent scaffolds a project or runs a CLI tool, it often reaches for npx without specifying […] The post Your agent just scaffolded a project from 2020 appeared first on Microsoft for Developers .
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