Patches Are Cheap Now. Verification Isn't: A Tiered Evidence Budget for Agent Patches
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Generating a candidate patch now costs less than checking it. That inversion is the real change in agent-assisted repositories: the bottleneck moved from authorship to admissible evidence. Below is a concrete budget for that evidence — four tiers, one repeat loop, and a harness you can run today. W…
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- 2026-10-27 13:53 · DEV Community — AI
Patches Are Cheap Now. Verification Isn't: A Tiered Evidence Budget for Agent Patches