Lesson 930 of 2116
Let CI Be The Referee
A coding agent should not be trusted because it sounds confident. CI is the boring machine that checks lint, types, tests, and build.
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- 1Let CI Be The Referee
- 2CI
- 3lint
- 4typecheck
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Section 1
Let CI Be The Referee
A coding agent should not be trusted because it sounds confident. CI is the boring machine that checks lint, types, tests, and build.
- 1Name the job before naming the tool.
- 2Write the smallest useful scope the agent can finish.
- 3Run the result as a user, not as a fan of the tool.
- 4Inspect the diff, data access, and failure path before sharing.
Use this as the working prompt or checklist for the lesson.
Add a CI workflow that runs lint, typecheck, tests, and build on every PR. Then ask the agent to fix failures without weakening the checks.- What should the user be able to do when this is finished?
- What data should the app or agent never expose?
- What test proves the change works?
- What rollback path exists if the output is wrong?
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