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Three green checks that lied about a content extraction API
A developer building a content extraction API found three passing tests that gave false confidence. A benchmark claimed 90% success but counted navigation soup as content. Sandbox tests passed while Chromium ran unsandboxed. A clean reproduction passed locally but failed in CI due to shared browser cache. The pattern: checks that share assumptions with the code cannot detect failures in those assumptions.
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A cautionary tale for developers: passing tests can actively deceive if they mirror the code's own assumptions, not independent reality.
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