The Agent Patch Test Budget: Spend CI Minutes Where They Catch Faults
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Agent-generated patches have a strange property: the cheaper they are to produce, the more expensive they are to validate. Once generation costs approach zero, your CI pipeline becomes the loop's bottleneck. The fix is not more gates — it is a budget that decides which gates run on which patch, and…
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- 2026-08-27 04:02 · DEV Community — AI
The Agent Patch Test Budget: Spend CI Minutes Where They Catch Faults