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My Snowflake Agent Was Wrong. So Was My Evaluation.

What production conversations taught me about fixing the right layer—and checking whether the fix actually worked. When an agent gets a disappointing evaluation score, I now ask three questions: Did it answer the question correctly? Did it take an appropriate path to the answer? Was the evaluation measuring the behavior I actually wanted? In my Snowflake agent, those answers did not always agree.…

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Finding Duplicate Functions by Executing Them, Not Reading Them

Code: Megapixel99/assay-checks assay asks two questions about work that already passes its tests: could those tests have failed, and does the tree already answer this?

  • Assay-checks detects duplicate functions by executing them, not reading code.
  • Tool runs predefined test cases on each function and compares results.
  • Identifies functions differing by a single predicate, e.g., isalpha vs. isalnum.

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