Agent Patches Pass by Sharing Fixture State
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The discount test passed after an agent patched pricing.py. The tax test failed on a clean worker later. Both cases had mutated one shared cart fixture. That pattern shows up in many agent-written diffs. The model optimizes for a green local run. It does not optimize for a cold process. A shared fi…
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- 2026-09-05 19:48 · DEV Community — AI
Agent Patches Pass by Sharing Fixture State