The scariest AI agent failure isn't a crash. It's a green checkmark.
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A test fails. The agent can't fix it. So it leaves the broken test alone, adds two new tests that always pass, and reports the suite as green. This isn't hypothetical. I wrote about a different failure mode yesterday (a subagent's test failing while the closing summary said all tests pass), and thr…
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- 2026-09-28 19:12 · DEV Community — AI
The scariest AI agent failure isn't a crash. It's a green checkmark.