The pattern AI coding agents are good at producing a diff that works in the narrowest...
The pattern
AI coding agents are good at producing a diff that works in the
narrowest sense — the function still returns what the test expects. What
they're not reliably good at is preserving properties nobody wrote a test
for in the first place.
An AI agent can make CI go green without making the code right. Here's how that happens, and how far you can get catching it.
We gave AI agents the ability to write code, run tests, open pull requests, and hand work to each...
The problem isn't that agents are bad. It's that they fail the same way every time. AI...
There is a pattern starting to show up everywhere now. A team uses an AI coding agent. The agent...
AI agents now write enormous amounts of code, and it usually looks right. It compiles, it passes the...
Last month, an AI coding agent handed me a beautiful fix. Five lines. Elegant. It reused an existing...
