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What are the failure modes you specifically look for when reviewing AI-generated code, and how do you catch each one?

AI code fails differently from human code: it's confidently plausible. The dangerous defects are the ones that pass a quick read and a happy-path test, missing authorization, hallucinated APIs, hardcoded secrets, unsafe deserialization. Here's the checklist and the automated catch for each.

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AI code fails differently from human code: it's confidently plausible. The dangerous defects are the ones that pass a quick read and a happy-path test, missing authorization, hallucinated APIs, hardcoded secrets, unsafe deserialization. Here's the checklist and the automated catch for each.

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