Full Breakdown: When can a change ship unread? When something cheap and hard to

AlphaSignal proposes tying a coding agent's autonomy to the checks that can reject its mistakes. In its editorial, the relevant question is whether affordable, reliable verification can catch a bad change before it ships, with the required scrutiny increasing as the consequences grow.

The visible article explains one way to test the tests themselves: mutation testing deliberately introduces bugs to see whether the checks detect them. That gives a team evidence about its verification coverage. The argument is an editorial decision rule, not a measured finding that automatically shipping unread code is safe.