Coverage theatre: your AI hit 90% coverage and still shipped the bug
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Your AI assistant just generated tests until the coverage bar turned green. 92%. Ship it? Here's the trap: coverage measures which lines ran , not whether a test would notice when they're wrong . AI made that gap free — you can generate 90% coverage in a minute, all of it happy-path, none of it dis…
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- 2026-09-30 09:07 · DEV Community — AI
Coverage theatre: your AI hit 90% coverage and still shipped the bug