Developers Spot Mainstream LLMs Suddenly Obsessed with 'Smoke Testing'
TokenRingAI · reddit · 2026-08-05
Developers have noticed a bizarre recent trend: mainstream coding agents powered by models like Opus, GPT, Grok, and Gemini have suddenly started obsessively running "Smoke Tests" on everything.
This behavior occurs even in brand-new, empty repositories. The synchronized emergence of this specific terminology across different models raises interesting questions about training data contamination or emergent agent behaviors.
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