Reading a test result out of a coding agent's transcript is harder than checking the exit code
Coding agents record every command they run. So checking "did the last test run pass?" looks like one line of code: find the last test command and read its exit code. I tried that on about 16,000 public agent runs. It was wrong often enough to change the result. For one model, 88 runs looked like t…
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- 2026-11-08 08:50 · DEV Community — AI
Reading a test result out of a coding agent's transcript is harder than checking the exit code