Recoverable merge matters more than mean time to green.
Coding agents can read failing CI logs and open pull requests in minutes. That is useful for mechanical failures. It becomes dangerous when teams treat a green pipeline as proof that an agent-authored change is safe to land.
This article is a practical checklist for platform engineers, SDEs, and testers who want agent speed without silent quality loss. It is not a product pitch.
The failure mode
Most “AI fixes CI” demos optimize one metric: time until the pipeline is green.
