{
  "id": 2970892,
  "title": "I Ran 170 Agent Goals for $0.49. The Field Test Found 10 Issues That Unit Tests Never Would.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/i-ran-170-agent-goals-for-0-49-the-field-test-found-10-issues-that",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T07:05:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/debashish_ghosal/i-ran-157-agent-goals-for-030-the-field-test-found-10-issues-that-unit-tests-never-would-hgk"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This series of articles explores the development of PlannerCritic, an open-source engine that combines two language models - one to create a plan and another to review it. The third article in the series focuses on practical field testing techniques for agent systems, using 170 goals and discussing the findings from this process.",
  "summary": "This is article 4 in a series about building PlannerCritic , an open-source engine where one LLM writes a plan and a second LLM reviews it. Article 1 covers the 157-goal v0.1.0 field test. Article 2 is about the critic severity bug. Article 3 is about the planner capability gap. This one is a practical guide to field testing agent systems — from 157 goals at $0.30 in v0.1.0 to 170 goals at $0.49…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}