Developers Slam AI Coding Agents for Poor Unit Tests and Over-Defensive Code

Researchers criticize AI coding agents for generating trivial unit tests and over-defensive code with overly broad exception handling that causes silent failures. They note the real challenge lies in integration testing under nondeterministic real-world environments.

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