48-Hour Field Notes: A Diff Meter for AI Patches That Quietly Drop Tests
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Late Thursday I asked a remote model for a one-line fix in a date parser. CI went green in six minutes. The log looked like a win until git show scrolled past the production file and landed on the test: forty lines gone, including the assertion that had been failing. The patch had not repaired the…
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48-Hour Field Notes: A Diff Meter for AI Patches That Quietly Drop Tests