Dependabot Plus Agents: Patch Automation Needs A Blast Radius

The size of a package bump does not correlate with the size of the operational risk. An AI agent amplifies this problem rather than solving it, because it actively rewrites source code to accommodate the new version. A dependency bot in 2018 only touched the manifest and left the runtime failure visible — nothing rewrote the application code, so the blank pages surfaced on their own. An agent removes that exposure by refactoring your renderer until the build passes, burying the same failure one layer deeper.