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by orsorna 89 days ago
> Some of these bots are sophisticated. They follow up in comments, respond to review feedback, and can follow intricate instructions. We require that servers pass validation checks on Glama, which involves signing up and configuring a Docker build. I know of at least one instance where a bot went through all of those steps. Impressive, honestly.

Impressive, but honestly meeting the bar. It's frankly disturbing that PRs are opened by agents and they often don't validate their changes. Almost all validations one might run don't even require inference!

Am I crazy? Do I take for granted that I:

- run local tests to catch regressions - run linting to catch code formatting and organization issues - verify CI build passes, which may include integration or live integration tests

Frankly these are /trivial/ tasks for an agent in 2026 to do. You'd expect a junior to fail at this and chastise a senior for skipping these. The fact that these agents don't perform these is a human operator failure.