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We Planted the Same Bug in Two PRs. The Human-Written One Got Grilled — the Agent's Sailed Through in Under a Minute

Sep 12, 2026

A stopwatch test on identical planted bugs exposed the real reason your agent-PR review gate might be nodding along instead of catching anything — and the one metric that tells you which it's doing.

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