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Is test coverage a good measure of AI code quality?

Weakly. Generated tests can achieve high coverage while asserting very little, because coverage measures which lines execute, not whether anything is verified. A better check is whether the suite fails when you deliberately break the logic.

From Technical debt from AI coding: how to measure it, published 9 August 2026. That article is where the reasoning behind this answer is set out, including what it does not cover.

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