{
  "id": 30491,
  "title": "A lint that crashes before it asserts is worse than no lint",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/02/a-lint-that-crashes-before-it-asserts-is-worse-than-no-lint",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-02T04:46:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/gad_ofir_076c468dd15d483b/a-lint-that-crashes-before-it-asserts-is-worse-than-no-lint-1k0o"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A lint that crashes before it asserts is worse than no lint We recently found a CI gate that had been reporting green for weeks without ever actually checking anything. The guard was a small Python test that enumerated tracked files with git ls-files before running a set of per-file assertions. It worked perfectly on every developer machine and on most CI pods — until it ran inside a…",
  "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."
}