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AI promoted every developer to reviewer. Nobody tested the reviewer.

Heinrich NebAug 24, 2026 • 6 min read

AI promoted every developer to reviewer. Nobody tested the reviewer.

I wanted to disagree with 'AI made me a worse reviewer' from Michael Amachree (@dev_michael) ....

#ai#productivity#testing#discuss

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Solution to Challenge 4 - Accessibility testing

abigail armijo5d ago • 6 min read

Solution to Challenge 4 - Accessibility testing

Challenge #4 is done — here's my solution to Practice Real-World Testing Scenarios for QA: Challenge...

#a11y#testing

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Git Said It Succeeded. The State Said Otherwise.

Self-Correcting Systems1d ago • 7 min read

Git Said It Succeeded. The State Said Otherwise.

I keep finding git behaviours the same way: set up the case, run the command, then check the state I...

#git#testing#devops#productivity

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My Commit Said "Stop Trusting the Receipt." That Is the Commit Where the Trusting Started.

Self-Correcting Systems1d ago • 8 min read

My Commit Said "Stop Trusting the Receipt." That Is the Commit Where the Trusting Started.

On 2026-08-25 at 21:27 EDT I pushed this to self-correcting-integration-maintainer: fix: repair.....

#testing#architecture#codereview#devops

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I Built an Agent That Marked Its Own Finding as Already Known

Self-Correcting Systems2d ago • 8 min read

I Built an Agent That Marked Its Own Finding as Already Known

This is the first contest I have entered. I built the honesty controls before I built the agent,...

#trueforge#qodo#testing#architecture

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Remember CLAIM-24? Here's what happened.

Self-Correcting Systems22h ago • 8 min read

Remember CLAIM-24? Here's what happened.

This is the CLAIM-24 result. If you followed that series in June and then watched it go quiet, this....

#testing#api#opensource#architecture

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My LLM Critic Flip-Flops on Every Run. That's Fine — Because a Frozenset Decides What's Fatal.

Debashish Ghosal17h ago • 7 min read

My LLM Critic Flip-Flops on Every Run. That's Fine — Because a Frozenset Decides What's Fatal.

This is a companion to the PlannerCritic series. Article 2 was about a specific critic bug. This one...

#ai#healthydebate#testing#llm

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Bugs Are Innocent Until Reproduced: Building Verdict, an Evidence-First Agent Harness

Himanshu Kumar1d ago • 4 min read

Bugs Are Innocent Until Reproduced: Building Verdict, an Evidence-First Agent Harness

Most flaky bug reports end in one of two places: "cannot reproduce" or a patch nobody can prove fixe...

#ai#testing#opensource#showdev

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Most AI Second Opinions Are Theater. I Built a System That Actually Fights Back.

Debashish Ghosal3d ago • 14 min read

Most AI Second Opinions Are Theater. I Built a System That Actually Fights Back.

The first time I ran two LLMs against the same pull request, 89% of their "debate" was fake. Not.....

#ai#healthydebate#testing#llm

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A Reader Audited My OSS Release in Public. He Found the Contradictions I Missed.

Debashish Ghosal4d ago • 7 min read

A Reader Audited My OSS Release in Public. He Found the Contradictions I Missed.

When I shipped v0.2.1 of PlannerCritic, I thought the hard part was over. The engine had survived a....

#ai#planner#llm#testing

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Most AI Second Opinions Are Fake. I Built a Two-LLM Review Engine to Prove It.

Debashish Ghosal4d ago • 11 min read

Most AI Second Opinions Are Fake. I Built a Two-LLM Review Engine to Prove It.

Most AI "second opinions" are fake. Not because there is no second model. Because the second model...

#ai#adversarial#llm#testing

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Two Projects, One Problem — What PlannerCritic and AdversarialDebate Each Got Wrong

Debashish Ghosal2d ago • 10 min read

Two Projects, One Problem — What PlannerCritic and AdversarialDebate Each Got Wrong

I built two systems this year that try to solve the same problem from opposite...

#ai#healthydebate#dogfood#testing

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The Gate That Stayed Silent — When a Blocker Count That Drops Reads as Improvement

Debashish Ghosal21h ago • 5 min read

The Gate That Stayed Silent — When a Blocker Count That Drops Reads as Improvement

In the last article, I argued that the safety contract should move out of the LLM critic and into...

#ai#planner#healthydebate#testing

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The Question That Picked My Model Didn't Survive Five Reruns

John Green5d ago • 5 min read

The Question That Picked My Model Didn't Survive Five Reruns

Eleven hours after the model-comparison post went up, a reader named Vinh Nguyen left a comment that...

#ai#llm#testing#programming

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I Scraped 20,000 YouTube Comments. The Videos and the Comments Were Having Two Different Conversations.

John GreenAug 25, 2026 • 3 min read

I Scraped 20,000 YouTube Comments. The Videos and the Comments Were Having Two Different Conversations.

I once collected about 22,000 comments from roughly 140 Korean YouTube videos about AI coding tools....

#ai#llm#testing#programming

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MCP C# Per-Request Client Capabilities: Read the Request, Not the Server

Sukhpinder Singh2d ago • 4 min read

MCP C# Per-Request Client Capabilities: Read the Request, Not the Server

With MCP C# per-request client capabilities, the 2026-07-28 protocol changes where a server must rea...

#mcp#dotnet#csharp#testing

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I Added a Fourth Model Mid-Run. It Changed What My Field Test Could Prove.

Debashish Ghosal1d ago • 7 min read

I Added a Fourth Model Mid-Run. It Changed What My Field Test Could Prove.

Latest release: v0.2.2 — Aug 29, 2026 I did something I usually try hard not to do in a field...

#ai#healthydebate#llm#testing

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My LLM Critic Disagreed With Itself on Every Trial. The Safe Part Was the Code I Didn’t Trust It to Touch.

Debashish Ghosal3d ago • 5 min read

My LLM Critic Disagreed With Itself on Every Trial. The Safe Part Was the Code I Didn’t Trust It to Touch.

In the My Agent Refused 96 Times. That Was the Right Output., I argued that the most valuable output...

#ai#healthydebate#testing#llm

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True Randomness in Laravel with Lararand

Eduardo Lázaro23h ago • 4 min read

True Randomness in Laravel with Lararand

Here is a line of PHP that deals a card from a tarot deck. It is wrong. $card =...

#php#laravel#testing#opensource

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.NET 10 ActivitySamplingResult PropagationData: Why Recorded Turns False

Sukhpinder Singh4d ago • 4 min read

.NET 10 ActivitySamplingResult PropagationData: Why Recorded Turns False

.NET 10 changed a small tracing rule that can quietly invalidate a custom sampler. With .NET 10...

#dotnet#csharp#testing#monitoring

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Your Tests Were Green Because the Gate Was Never Wired In

John2d ago • 7 min read

Your Tests Were Green Because the Gate Was Never Wired In

A publish-blocking gate had full unit test coverage and stayed green through review after review. It...

#agents#debugging#softwareengineering#testing

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I Gave a Regex and an LLM the Same Exam. Fatal 3 vs Fatal 0.

John Green4d ago • 4 min read

I Gave a Regex and an LLM the Same Exam. Fatal 3 vs Fatal 0.

In the last post my comment classifier — a regex — sat a 15-question exam and produced three fatal.....

#ai#llm#testing#programming

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The Known-Good Sample Was Not Known-Good

John2d ago • 5 min read

The Known-Good Sample Was Not Known-Good

I derived a threshold from measurement instead of guessing, and the measurement was clean — zero ove...

#debugging#softwareengineering#testing

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datetime.now() <= end: The One-Line Comparison That Silently Blocked Every Request for 12 Hours

Mukesh6d ago • 4 min read

datetime.now() <= end: The One-Line Comparison That Silently Blocked Every Request for 12 Hours

For twelve hours, a background service I run sat there doing nothing. No crash, no stack trace, no.....

#testing#python#webdev#programming

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Tech Articles

AI promoted every developer to reviewer. Nobody tested the reviewer.

Solution to Challenge 4 - Accessibility testing

Git Said It Succeeded. The State Said Otherwise.

My Commit Said "Stop Trusting the Receipt." That Is the Commit Where the Trusting Started.

I Built an Agent That Marked Its Own Finding as Already Known

Remember CLAIM-24? Here's what happened.

My LLM Critic Flip-Flops on Every Run. That's Fine — Because a Frozenset Decides What's Fatal.

Bugs Are Innocent Until Reproduced: Building Verdict, an Evidence-First Agent Harness

Most AI Second Opinions Are Theater. I Built a System That Actually Fights Back.

A Reader Audited My OSS Release in Public. He Found the Contradictions I Missed.

Most AI Second Opinions Are Fake. I Built a Two-LLM Review Engine to Prove It.

Two Projects, One Problem — What PlannerCritic and AdversarialDebate Each Got Wrong

The Gate That Stayed Silent — When a Blocker Count That Drops Reads as Improvement

The Question That Picked My Model Didn't Survive Five Reruns

I Scraped 20,000 YouTube Comments. The Videos and the Comments Were Having Two Different Conversations.

MCP C# Per-Request Client Capabilities: Read the Request, Not the Server

I Added a Fourth Model Mid-Run. It Changed What My Field Test Could Prove.

My LLM Critic Disagreed With Itself on Every Trial. The Safe Part Was the Code I Didn’t Trust It to Touch.

True Randomness in Laravel with Lararand

.NET 10 ActivitySamplingResult PropagationData: Why Recorded Turns False

Your Tests Were Green Because the Gate Was Never Wired In

I Gave a Regex and an LLM the Same Exam. Fatal 3 vs Fatal 0.

The Known-Good Sample Was Not Known-Good

datetime.now() <= end: The One-Line Comparison That Silently Blocked Every Request for 12 Hours