Nothing Failed. The Suite Just Got Slower: A Wall-Clock Budget Gate for Agent Patches
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A patch touches zero test files. No assertion changes, no new skips, no fixture edits. The suite goes green on the first run. Then someone opens the job duration graph and the branch takes nearly three times as long as the commit it branched from. Numbers in this post are illustrative unless labell…
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- 2026-10-20 04:35 · DEV Community — AI
Nothing Failed. The Suite Just Got Slower: A Wall-Clock Budget Gate for Agent Patches