I’m a web-centric software engineer living in Tucson, Arizona. This site, limulus.net, is my personal website.
In March 2018, I got married!
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Lalit Maganti and I have a similar experience with the need to constantly refactor when building a project with a coding agent.
It feels like software quality has been on the decline. It’s understandable to think AI will make it all worse. Yet agentic engineering gives us a real opportunity to do better.
Agents prompted with “red-green TDD” write most of the tests first, then all the code — skipping the part of TDD that actually matters. Dual-loop BDD might be a better prompt strategy.
A wonderful essay by Ed Lyons, offering lessons for surviving the AI revolution in software development — including “stop listening to people who are afraid” and “seek first-hand testimony, not opinions.”