358 pull requests that changed tests: agents rarely weakened them. They bent the code instead.
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Coding agents get blamed for "making tests pass" by skipping or deleting them. I wanted numbers before building a guard for that, so I collected public pull requests that modified test code (2026, repositories with 100+ stars) and had them labeled before running any tool on them: 198 merged, approv…
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- 2026-10-04 22:02 · DEV Community — AI
358 pull requests that changed tests: agents rarely weakened them. They bent the code instead.