Test automation with AI
Whether and how unit tests apply when coding with AI agents. Every AI Coding Weekly story on test automation with AI, newest first. 4 stories since October 2026.
- Pocock's prompt of the day is "how do we make this change fully verifiable?"
One question, no numbers, and an agent that goes off and clicks through the frontend by itself.
- Ronacher says agents can write their own test suite
A disagreement about whether an existing conformance suite is required, or just helpful.
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- Ball posts the push-to-main pipeline behind his no-PR team
After a week of arguing that code review adds nothing, he answered the how with a build and deploy setup.
- Thorsten Ball says agents don't need unit tests like we do
An argument about whether tests are a specification or a ladder for human short term memory.
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