Gate-Erosion
- Reading Isn't Verifying — So I Cut the Agents That Only Read
Four of six red-team attacks walked past every gate in my agent harness that read artifacts. Only running the code on inputs the producer never chose caught them.
- Gate Erosion: How Polished AI Output Disarms Your Code Review
Reviewers feel more positive about AI code that's objectively worse — that's gate erosion, now peer-reviewed. The 2026 evidence and the protocol that stops it.