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I almost killed a project because my test harness was measuring its own bug

I was one command away from spending real API money on an experiment whose answer would have been wrong — and wrong in the most dangerous direction: it would have told me the thing I was testing worked , for the wrong reason, or failed for a reason that had nothing to do with it. What saved me was…

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  1. 2026-10-31 22:36 · DEV Community — AI
    I almost killed a project because my test harness was measuring its own bug

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