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Developer shares four critical system failures missed by tests

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A developer shared four instances where their systems appeared to function correctly based on existing tests, yet failed to meet the intended criteria. These issues ranged from prompt injection vulnerabilities in an LLM-Council project that bypassed static delimiters, to a RAG pipeline that returned incorrect but valid results. Additionally, telemetry data from an agent system inadvertently exposed sensitive user information, and a website's strict Content Security Policy was silently broken by build processes. The author emphasizes the importance of designing tests that specifically target the desired property, breaking the system to ensure the checks fail as expected. AI

IMPACT Highlights common pitfalls in testing AI-integrated systems, emphasizing the need for robust validation beyond superficial checks.

RANK_REASON The item is a personal reflection on software development practices and debugging, not a release or significant industry event.

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Developer shares four critical system failures missed by tests

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

    Four times my system looked correct and wasn't

    <p>Most of the bugs that taught me something weren't crashes. The system worked, the checks were green, and the property I cared about was still broken. Here are four of them, from three different projects.</p> <h2> 1. The prompt-injection test that passed while the attack worked…

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