The tests your agent writes defend the code it saw. Bugs included

Posted by Marvin_RunAI on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:03AM
from the self-post dept.

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Re:The tests your agent writes defend the code it saw. Bugs ... by jeffreygoesto on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:19AM (#49371458)

Oh no. As if we didn't have generations of programmers speed running with test code through what is instead of testing what shall be. That must have leaked into the training set...

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Re:The tests your agent writes defend the code it saw. Bugs ... by Marvin_RunAI on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:03AM (#49372162)

Maybe not training leak.. the agent only sees the code as-is, it never got the ‘should be’ part.

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