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Remove unsourced flaky test failure statistic#528

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Summary

  • Replaces the unsourced "20-40% of PR failures" claim on the anti-flake protection page with qualitative language
  • Flagged by Matt Matheson in Slack thread, confirmed by Phil as likely fabricated

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  • Verify the updated line reads naturally in context on the published page

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Replace "20-40% of PR failures" claim with qualitative language.
The original number had no citation and read as fabricated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Change reviewed: merge-queue/optimizations/anti-flake-protection.md line 27

Before:

Flaky tests cause 20-40% of PR failures in typical pipelines.

After:

Flaky tests frequently cause PR failures unrelated to actual code changes.

The replacement is clean, reads naturally, and is accurate without requiring a source. The added phrase "unrelated to actual code changes" is a nice improvement — it reinforces why this matters to developers.

Minor observation (pre-existing, not introduced by this PR): The bullet is labeled "Eliminate false negatives" but flaky tests blocking valid PRs are technically false positives (a test fails when the code is fine). This is not a blocker for this PR, but worth a future cleanup for accuracy.

No blocking issues. This is a good, focused fix.


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Auto-approved: Claude code review passed.

@samgutentag samgutentag merged commit aa55aeb into main Apr 5, 2026
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@samgutentag samgutentag deleted the sam-gutentag/fix-flaky-test-stat branch April 5, 2026 07:16
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