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Coding agents keep "fixing" tests by editing them, so I made it impossible

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If you use coding agents you've seen this one. A test fails, the agent can't find the bug, so it flips the expected value, loosens the assert, or mocks the whole thing out. Green check. Broken code. I run a lot of agents in parallel, and the only thing that kept that sane was one rule: the agent ne…

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  1. 2026-10-10 11:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Coding agents keep "fixing" tests by editing them, so I made it impossible

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