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The industry gave the coding agent the whole repo as its working scope and is discovering that agents do the most damage where they are most helpful: making thi

Tests were a contract the team made with itself. Agents made the suite an attack surface. Tamper-resistant test design is what the suite now owes the codebase:

Autonomous AI agents can plan, implement, and deliver code. But without automated verification, you're just producing unreviewed changes faster. TDD provides th

Documentation lies. Wikis rot. READMEs drift. Your test suite is the only specification that stays current, and it's the interface AI agents actually use.

The test pyramid was not a quality law. It was a cost structure: unit tests were cheap, integration tests were expensive, so you wrote many of the first and few

Gherkin was never really a test format. It was a coordination protocol between specialized roles. In the AI era, where roles compress and translation is cheap,