Properties Without Witnesses Are Decorations: A Falsifiability Gate for Agent Patches
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A property that passes on the patched tree and on the pre-patch tree carries no information. That is the first thing to measure, before you trust any property an agent wrote for you. Most agent-written property tests fail this way. The agent reads the diff, writes an invariant that the new code obv…
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- 2026-10-18 02:19 · DEV Community — AI
Properties Without Witnesses Are Decorations: A Falsifiability Gate for Agent Patches