Codex-generated tests are so bloated agents just delete and rewrite them
jxmnop · x · 2026-07-29
Codex-generated unit tests are getting so bloated in a large codebase that they become unreadable “Neuralese,” and when they fail, agents often just delete them and write new ones from scratch.
The poster jokes that they may soon have to declare “test bankruptcy,” highlighting a real maintainability problem in agent-generated code.
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