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A hand-written mutation survived all 20 generated pytest tests on a small CSV parser. Coverage counted lines executed; nothing in the suite checked the behaviour.
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A generated feature-flag helper returned the right answer on a laptop and raised NameError in a clean Docker image. An AST walk over loaded-but-unbound names catches the whole class.
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A small FastAPI repro turns 20 simultaneous requests for one tenant into 20 database queries while the dashboard still reads healthy. The metric that catches it is in-flight loads per key.
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An illegal transition throws an exception you can grep for. An undefined one returns success and quietly drifts from the order history your support team reads.
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A dev.to post argues latency assertions cannot catch an N+1 because dev machines are too fast. The proposed gate is a batch-size log and a call count that must stay flat.
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A GitLab CI job burned three model calls to produce one answer. Fingerprinting the normalized request, while excluding branch names and build IDs, costs less than begging for more free quota.
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A crash triage queue stalled while every check passed: 200 OK, clean JSON, stable schema, wrong labels. The fix is a deterministic contract and a ledger of disagreements.
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