Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

We need to adopt classic “shift left” thinking. Once upon a time we wrote all of our code, passed it to a QA team to test, and then tried to fix enough bugs to ship a release. Then we discovered that when developers write and run tests as we work we find and fix issues right away, which makes the whole process faster and more reliable.

What works for humans can work for agents as well. Agents produce better code when they can gauge the quality of the code they produce themselves rather than relying on us to check it for them. We need to instruct them on what we’re looking for, and give them guidance on the best ways to achieve it.

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