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Order Beats Randomness: Bisecting Test Pollution in Agent Patches

Most tests labeled "flaky" in an agent-patch pipeline are not nondeterministic at all. They are order-dependent: they pass alone, and fail after some other test leaves shared state behind. Randomization masks that. Bisection names it. The distinction matters because the two failures have opposite r…

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  1. 2026-11-05 23:23 · DEV Community — AI
    Order Beats Randomness: Bisecting Test Pollution in Agent Patches

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