Freeze Flaky Tests Before You Judge a Patch
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A reviewer opens an agent patch at 2am. CI is red. The diff touches a cache layer and a date formatter. Nothing in the diff explains the failure. So the reviewer reruns the job. It goes green. That single rerun is the problem. An agent patch has no author to ask. Its only defense is the verdict, an…
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- 2026-10-20 09:37 · DEV Community — AI
Freeze Flaky Tests Before You Judge a Patch