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Kun Chen banned Sonnet 5.5 from writing its own tests on DeepSWE and nothing got worse. Tests aren't dead, but a test written from the agent's own guess is no check at all.
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Kun Chen banned Sonnet 5.5 from writing its own tests on DeepSWE and nothing got worse. Tests aren't dead, but a test written from the agent's own guess is no check at all.

Cognition put Devin's memory in a git repo of markdown and lets a nightly agent tidy it. Lovely primitive, but the writes are where memory goes wrong, so review them like code.

Uncle Bob doesn't read agent code anymore, he measures it. Fair enough, but the agents can edit the measurements, so decide who owns the instruments before you stop looking.