Three Buckets and a Freeze: A Testing Triage for Agent Patches That Don't Trust the Patch
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When an agent edits your code, every test result is a claim. The claim says: this patch doesn't break what the tests observe . Claims are cheap. Evidence is not. I saw this again last week. An agent produced a patch that passed all 9 unit tests. A separate trace oracle flagged 4 behavioral changes…
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- 2026-08-30 09:37 · DEV Community — AI
Three Buckets and a Freeze: A Testing Triage for Agent Patches That Don't Trust the Patch