- **Loop bounds backed by a mutated ndarray.** A reverse-mode kernel with `for i in range(n[j])` requires `n[j]` to hold the same value at the forward call and at `.grad()`. If anything writes to `n[j]` between those two points - the differentiable kernel itself, or any other kernel call - the computed gradient may come out wrong, sometimes as an `Adstack overflow` exception at `qd.sync()`, sometimes silently. The safe rule: populate loop-bound ndarrays before the forward call and leave them untouched until `.grad()` returns. The reason for that is Quadrants' adstack sizer design: it reads the loop bound separately at each dispatch, which includes forward and backward calls. Tape-based eager AD like [PyTorch's autograd](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/autograd.html) is not affected, since the trip count is recorded as the forward runs and reused at backward time.
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