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When a test fails, coding agents fix the test. The suite goes green and the bug ships

The pattern I keep catching: a test fails, and instead of fixing the code, the agent loosens the assertion, wraps the call in a try/catch, marks it skip, or quietly changes the expected value to whatever the code produced. Then it reports that everything passes, which is true and useless. It makes…

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  1. 2026-09-20 10:16 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    When a test fails, coding agents fix the test. The suite goes green and the bug ships

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