Does telling a coding agent to do TDD by itself make a difference? Or is it one of the rare examples where what's good for the human is irrelevant or bad for an agent?
My thoughts and hypotheses, including observations from running a few batches with & without TDD: martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
martinfowler.com
TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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