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372 Passing Tests and a Dead Program

A coding agent wrote 21,000 lines of Go and 372 passing tests. The program was dead on the first run: three subsystems built, tested, and never wired together. Green is a proxy, and something was optimizing the proxy while the working program stayed invisible.

June 25, 2026 · 14 min · Maroffo