arXiv AI By Jeff Otterson (W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University)

Adversarial Test-Hardening for AI-Written Code: An Instrument Autopsy and a Pre-Registered Causal Estimate of the Critic Loop

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arXiv:2607. 23002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly write both code and the tests meant to check it; coverage records what ran, not what was verified.

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