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NoKiro · 3 May 2026

It never occurred to the AI agent to do some simple cross examination before essentially throwing in the towel?

k3vinw on Hacker News

In the thread “Uncle Bob: It's Over”

Got in the way: Failed to cross-examine and incorrectly blamed the testing library.

… After intervening I determined the root cause was a combination of an async issue with the production code and some incorrect mocking that was covering up the async issue. It never occurred to the AI agent to do some simple cross examination before essentially throwing in the towel?