Comment by p1necone
2 hours ago
The "this test failure is preexisting so I'm going to ignore it" thing has been happening a lot for me lately, it's so annoying. Unless it makes a change and then immediately runs tests and it's obvious from the name/contents that the failing test is directly related to the change that was made it will ignore it and not try to fix.
This problem has been around for a long time. Not only that but it would say this even when the problems were directly caused by their code.
I put a line in my CLAUDE.md that says "If a test doesn't pass, fix it regardless of whether it was pre-existing or in a different part of the code."
> "this test failure is preexisting so I'm going to ignore it"
Critical finding! You spotted the smoking gun!
That said I've worked with several humans who did/said the exact same thing.