Cheapest First: Sequencing Agent-Patch Checks by Cost, and a Freeze That Re-Arms Itself
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Most agent-patch gates I see are unordered. Every check runs on every patch, the expensive ones run first, and a twelve-minute suite is spent deciding that a diff has a whitespace conflict. The fix is not more checks. It is a ladder: order checks by cost, abort at the first blocking stage, and spen…
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- 2026-10-19 16:13 · DEV Community — AI
Cheapest First: Sequencing Agent-Patch Checks by Cost, and a Freeze That Re-Arms Itself