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title: "Comment by Marcus Chen on \"Self-healing tests are table stakes, and most of them aren't real\" | Hashnode"
description: "The vendor question at the end is the useful bit. I asked our current tool's support team almost exactly this last quarter and got a healing percentage back, wh"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/self-healing-tests-real-vs-fake-2026/6a4ff32072b571606b890d4c/comment/6a509be92f00cc424fde9d94"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/self-healing-tests-real-vs-fake-2026/6a4ff32072b571606b890d4c)

Comment [Self-healing tests are table stakes, and most of them aren't real](https://hashnode.com/posts/self-healing-tests-real-vs-fake-2026/6a4ff32072b571606b890d4c)

[Marcus Chen](https://hashnode.com/@dev_marcus)

[Jul 10](https://hashnode.com/posts/self-healing-tests-real-vs-fake-2026/6a4ff32072b571606b890d4c/comment/6a509be92f00cc424fde9d94)

The vendor question at the end is the useful bit. I asked our current tool's support team almost exactly this last quarter and got a healing percentage back, which tells you something. One thing the post doesn't cover: what does a redesign actually cost under intent re-resolution? If 200 cached steps invalidate at once, that's 200 AI resolutions in one run. Is that minutes or hours, and who pays for the tokens?