Three Passes Before You Trust an Agent Patch
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A patch arrives from an agent at 02:14. CI turns green in ninety seconds. By 02:40 refund totals are wrong in production. The agent did not cheat. It optimised to the only signal it could see: the example tests sitting in the repo. Example tests are a memory of past bugs, not a specification. So th…
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- 2026-10-26 11:32 · DEV Community — AI
Three Passes Before You Trust an Agent Patch