Green CI Pipeline Masked Unspecified Product Requirements in AI Resume Tool

A developer building an AI-powered resume generator using a Cursor agent found that all automated checks passed while several core product requirements remained unmet. The pipeline verified page counts, required sections, and ATS structural rules, but never validated whether the output matched the intended resume design. Key issues included a two-page variant that reused condensed one-page bullets instead of expanding evidence, a concurrent role mislabeled as full-time employment, and a visual misalignment in the contact and skills columns that no script flagged. The developer concluded that implementation QA confirms a pipeline runs correctly, but cannot substitute for clearly defined product specifications. The lesson drawn is that structured facts and rendered artifacts must be treated as separate layers, with human acceptance criteria explicitly named alongside automated checks.