Green Tests Can Be a Weakened Oracle: A Three-Bucket Plan for Agent Patches
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Agent-generated patches often go green by shrinking the oracle, not by fixing the code. They drop an assertion. They skip a race. They assume a precondition the production path does not guarantee. Merge on that signal and you bought a quieter suite, not a safer one. This article proposes a three-bu…
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- 2026-09-05 16:15 · DEV Community — AI
Green Tests Can Be a Weakened Oracle: A Three-Bucket Plan for Agent Patches