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Exit Code Zero Is Not a Spec: A Digest Harness for AI C++ Patches

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A payments team merged a model-written C++ patch on a Friday. Every parse_amount test returned zero. Monday's batch importer split records on the substring WARN , which the new code printed to stderr for every rounded cent. The tests had never hashed stderr. The agent loop had no reason to. Coding…

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  1. 2026-09-09 15:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Exit Code Zero Is Not a Spec: A Digest Harness for AI C++ Patches

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