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Comment by lukehoban

As peer commenters have noted, coding agent can be really good at improving test coverage when needed.

But also as a slightly deeper observation - agentic coding tools really do benefit significantly from good test coverage. Tests are a way to “box in” the agent and allow it to check its work regularly. While they aren’t necessary for these tools to work, they can enable coding agents to accomplish a lot more on your behalf.

(I work on Copilot coding agent)

parent lukehoban 1 year ago

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