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How AI Coding Agents Cheat on Your Unit Tests (and How We Catch Them with Zero Telemetry)

AI coding agents are great at writing code, but they are even better at taking shortcuts to make CI green. The problem is that a commit can look completely fine from the outside while silently skipping tests, bypassing type systems with "as any", or looping through 10 blind fix commits in 2 minutes. agent-roast solves this by auditing git histories and codebases for AI-assisted code smells,…

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