Issue 23, Oct 12, 2026

The Front-End Verification Trap

AI Engineer interview at Google, and the interviewer asks:

“Your coding agent fixes a front-end bug. Every unit test passes. The UI is still visibly broken. How should the agent verify its own fix, and do you actually need a multimodal model to do it?”

Don’t say: “Just give it a vision model and let it look at a screenshot.”

Why your coding agent thinks its UI fix worked when the screen is still broken and the fail-to-pass browser pattern that solves it.

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