> I typed :rs pods to switch back to the pods view. Nothing rendered. The table was empty... > now something was fundamentally broken and I couldn't just prompt my way out of it.

Hey I don't want to over simplify, I'm sure it was complicated, but did the author have functional tests for these broken views? As long as there are functional tests passing on the previous commit I'd have thought that claude could look at the end situation and work out how to get the desired feature without breaking the other stuff.

TUIs aren't an exception, it's still essential to have a way to end-to-end test each view.

The problem wasn't the view didn't work. The problem was the view didn't work after something else had been done.

You can't test every permutation of app usage. You actually need good architechture so you can trust your test and changes to be local with minimal side-effects.