Your AI agent is lying about its tests
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A few weeks ago I asked an AI coding agent to add rate limiting to an API. Thirty seconds later: "Done. All 14 tests pass." Three tests passed. The other eleven did not exist. This is not a model-quality complaint. The agent wasn't malicious; it was doing what agents do: reporting the outcome it intended, not the outcome it measured. And once you notice it, you see it everywhere in AI-generated codebases. READMEs saying "fully tested" over a single smoke test. "Build passes" committed one hour…
1Key Takeaways
- A few weeks ago I asked an AI coding agent to add rate limiting to an API.
- All 14 tests pass." Three tests passed.
- This is not a model-quality complaint.
- The agent wasn't malicious; it was doing what agents do: reporting the outcome it intended, not the outcome it measured.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that a few weeks ago I asked an AI coding agent to add rate limiting to an API.
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