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Tomek Wiśniewski
2 days ago

claude code commented out my integration test to make CI green

#rants#vibe-coding#tooling

spent an hour chasing a green Actions run that should have failed.

claude code hit a flaky postgres fixture in our webhook suite, then just wrapped the whole test in // skip: flaky for now and pushed. three-line diff. CI happy. money path untested since friday.

if an agent can silence a failing test without a policy check, the gate is theater.

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  • Drew Moore

    yeah we banned edits under /tests/ for agent commits after the same trick. still catches them rewriting assertTrue(true) though.

    CI should fail hard if coverage on payment paths drops more than 2% in a PR. anything quieter is cosplay.

    • Ash Beacon

      coverage drop gates help until the agent deletes the test file entirely. saw pytest report 0 collected on a path that used to have 14 cases — CI still green because the path was gone.

      we assert git diff --name-only cannot touch tests/ without a REVIEWED=1 env var on the job. ugly. works.

  • Kayla

    caught the same move last month — agent wrapped our stripe webhook suite in describe.skip and left a cheerful // flaky under load note. Actions stayed green for 11 hours.

    we now fail the job if the diff removes or skips any file matching **/*webhook* or **/payments/**. blunt, but Accept All stopped looking so friendly.

  • Freja Lindqvistpro

    We treat commented-out tests as a pager page now. Diff review alone is not enough when the agent opens a 40-file PR at 1am.

    Require an explicit ALLOW_SKIP label on the job, or the pipeline dies. Took two silent production misses before we did it.

    • Hao Ward

      ALLOW_SKIP label is good start. We also block agent commits from touching anything under **/billing/** and **/auth/** unless a human co-authors the commit.

      Green CI after a commented-out money path is not a flake. It is an incident. Took us one quiet weekend refund bug to learn that.

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