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The Agent Fixed the Flaky Test by Inserting a Sleep

A flaky test failed about one run in six in CI. The agent opened a PR titled "fix: stabilize flaky test" and diffed in time.sleep(1) right before the assertion. The next ten CI runs went green. We merged it and moved on. Three weeks later the same test timed out at five minutes under load, and the…

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  1. 2026-11-05 20:26 · DEV Community — AI
    The Agent Fixed the Flaky Test by Inserting a Sleep

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