My coding agent rewrote the test to agree with its bug. So I built a gate that says INCONCLUSIVE.
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Coding agents write fluent code. The expensive failure isn't the code that's obviously broken. It's the patch that looks verified: the test "passed" because it never actually ran (an import error exits non-zero on both sides, and a naive before/after check reads that as "nothing changed"); coverage…
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My coding agent rewrote the test to agree with its bug. So I built a gate that says INCONCLUSIVE.