Validation Is a Loop, Not an Assertion: Why Your AI Agent Reports Success It Never Achieved
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An agent I was reviewing was asked to rename a function across a repository. It ran for a while, made its edits, and returned a clean summary: Done. Renamed parseUser to parseAccount everywhere. The summary was confident, well formatted, and wrong. Six of eight call sites were updated. Two were not, one buried in a string that built the name dynamically and one in a test helper the search had skipped. The agent did not lie. It returned what its model believed was true at the moment it returned.…
1Key Takeaways
- An agent I was reviewing was asked to rename a function across a repository.
- It ran for a while, made its edits, and returned a clean summary: Done.
- Renamed parseUser to parseAccount everywhere.
- The summary was confident, well formatted, and wrong.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that an agent I was reviewing was asked to rename a function across a repository.
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