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The practice of checking AI-generated code for correctness, security flaws, and hidden assumptions before trusting or merging it.
A dev.to walkthrough published as MonkeyCode outreach treats every generated import as a rumor until an index answers. All eleven commands it prints are typed by hand, and none of them is wired to a merge gate.
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In a dev.to field note, the HTTP handler answered every curl while the queue worker drained nothing, and the one signal that could have caught it was a heartbeat file the author never opened.
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A dev.to post walks through a Rails action that authenticates the caller and then loads any invoice by id. The defect is an absence, and the model's own tests confirm it.
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A dev.to walkthrough shows a fluent LEFT JOIN double-counting two orders into 1,830 when the right answer was 1,330. The check that catches it costs two statements.
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Phillip Mortimer told QCon London that humans cannot review AI-generated code at volume. That moves the inspected artifact to tests and alerts, which is a process change, not a purchase.
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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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