Fewer moving goal posts for more reliable commits

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0700

The moment I understood what we had built was not during a benchmark or eval. It was during a commit that took three tries.

I asked an agent to make a change. It finished, staged the work, and tried to commit. The pre-commit hook ran a scan and blocked it on a reliability finding. The agent read the finding, understood it, and fixed it. It tried to commit again, and this time its own fix had introduced a second blocking finding. It read that one, fixed it too, and ran again. This time it passed, and committed the whole change set.

AI Writes More of Your Code Now. It Also Ships More Reliability Risk.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0700

A 2025 study of 470 pull requests found that AI-generated code shipped roughly 1.7x more issues and about 1.4x more critical defects than human-written code. Nobody serious reads that as “AI code is bad,” and I’m not arguing it either; much of what an agent writes is clean, idiomatic, and correct. The trouble starts when you sit a real workflow on top of that number: volume times defect rate, pointed at the part of the system that hurts most when it breaks.

Agentic-Coding on Revelara

Fewer moving goal posts for more reliable commits

AI Writes More of Your Code Now. It Also Ships More Reliability Risk.