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Merge Agent Patches on Harvested Failures, Not on Tests They Wrote

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Agent-authored tests are a weak merge signal. The same process that produced the patch also produced the proof. A stronger gate is a harvest loop: human-owned properties, searched inputs, shrunk failures pinned as fixtures, and a dual-run that demands a red witness on the base tree. This article is…

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  1. 2026-09-17 04:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Merge Agent Patches on Harvested Failures, Not on Tests They Wrote

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