Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

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Test-first development (red/green TDD) significantly improves coding agent reliability by ensuring tests fail before implementation, reducing unnecessary or broken code.

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The post collects expert perspectives on AI-assisted development, emphasizing verification over generation, harness engineering, function structure, and the cultural divide between software thinking and human experience.
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AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Coding agents can improve code quality by handling refactoring, enabling exploratory prototyping, and compounding small quality improvements over time.
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