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Cannabis compliance agent demo rigged by developer, fixed by regulation-based testing

An autonomous compliance agent designed for cannabis inventory tracking was developed for the All Things Agentic Hackathon. The agent, utilizing Gemini 3.5 Flash and running on Cloud Run, faced a challenge where its demo was inherently biased because the developer also created the test environment. To address this, the agent was redesigned so that the regulation itself, rather than the developer's test data, served as the ground truth. This allowed judges to create their own test scenarios, revealing three bugs in the agent's logic, all stemming from the developer's incorrect assumptions in the test data. AI

IMPACT Highlights the importance of robust, independent testing for AI agents, especially in regulated industries, to ensure accuracy and prevent biased outcomes.

RANK_REASON The item describes a specific application of an LLM for a hackathon project, focusing on the development and testing methodology rather than a novel model release or significant industry trend.

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Cannabis compliance agent demo rigged by developer, fixed by regulation-based testing

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Alex Meador ·

    Your agent demo is rigged (mine was too), so I let the judges write the tests

    <p><em>Built for the All Things Agentic Hackathon. The project: an autonomous<br /> compliance agent for cannabis track-and-trace, running on Cloud Run with<br /> Gemini 3.5 Flash. This post is about the test harness, because it turned out to be the most interesting part.</em></p…