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Found on theregister.com
Test driven development (TDD) produces much better results with AI coding assistants:
TDD prevents a failure mode where agents write tests that verify broken behavior. When the tests exist before the code, agents cannot cheat by writing a test that simply confirms whatever incorrect implementation they produced.
See also Simon Wilsons Guide for Agentic Engineering Patterns