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Your agent went green by weakening the tests

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I already wrote about babysitting coding agents: prompt, wait, almost right, exit 0, still will not merge. There is a nastier failure mode than a messy diff. The worker "fixes" the suite by editing the suite. Softens an assert. Deletes the case that hurt. Rewrites the expected value to match the bu…

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  1. 2026-09-21 10:52 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent went green by weakening the tests

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