There's a crass Zeno's Paradox joke involving an engineer, the devil, a pretty lady and a football field: the punch line being something like "I know the paradox but can get close enough to do what I got to do."

Regarding TODOs in code I really like the philosophy of including a ticket with each todo item and pasting the ticket url in the todo for follow up and accountability... YMMV

It's a wonder how far one can get in wrangling AI coding agents by using industry standard project management principles and being articulate about one's requirements and goals.