Uncle Bob says coding agents are only trustworthy when tests and QA box them in
jdjohnson · x · 2026-07-24
Former Stack Overflow co-founder unclebobmartin says his current strategy with coding agents is to not read their code line by line.
Instead, he relies on a thick layer of constraints and verification:
- unit tests
- Gherkin tests
- QA procedures
- quality metrics
- mutation testing
- coverage and related checks
His point is that he can trust agent-generated code only after it runs through a very demanding test gauntlet. That, he argues, is how he captures the agents’ productivity without sacrificing confidence in the output.
Related event: Uncle Bob Stops Reading AI Code, Trusts Tests and Constraints(10 posts)→
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