200 Is a Trap: A 90-Minute Agent Spike
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HTTP 200 is not an API contract today. Status-only suites train coding agents to lie politely. This spike kills that failure mode in ninety minutes. Hypothesis Hold one hypothesis, one clock, and a ship-or-kill rule. An agent told to make tests green will return 200 and {} . A schema-locked harness…
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- 2026-09-20 11:59 · DEV Community — AI
200 Is a Trap: A 90-Minute Agent Spike