Yes. Humans are also unreliable and nondeterministic (though certainly more reliable). Accordingly we have built software dev practices around this. I imagine it would be super useful for example to have a "TDD enforcer":
Phase 1: only test files may be altered, exactly one new test failure must appear.
Phase 2: only code files may be altered. The phase is cleared when the test now succeeds and no other tests fail.
If you get stuck, bail and ask for guidance
I've been busy building and dogfooding open-artisan for my own development purposes. I've diverged quite a bit from main and am hoping to merge some of those changes back soon. It's basically an OpenCode plugin that forces open-code token-hungry state machine that tries to map the engineering process I follow, exposing only valid tools and states at every step of development. If you're interested, in following along or trying it out, it's available here:
https://github.com/yehudacohen/open-artisan/
Hopefully, I'll merge in my large structural changes in the next couple of weeks. These structural changes will enhance the state machine meaningfully, as well as adding support for hermes agenet.