Green tests are not evidence your coding agent finished the job
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A coding agent can ship a green diff that is not the job you asked for. A vague brief leaves the agent to decide what is broken, what must stay stable, and how far the change reaches. Those are product and engineering decisions. The implementation makes them for you if you leave them implicit. The…
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- 2026-10-13 08:56 · DEV Community — AI
Green tests are not evidence your coding agent finished the job