Don't Let Coding Agents Grade Their Own Homework: Introducing QA Agents
sergeykarayev · x · 2026-08-07
The author shares a key practice in AI coding workflows: coding agents should not grade their own homework.
In their setup, after a coding agent reports task completion with passing tests, a separate QA agent is deployed to actually open the app and verify the feature. This independent testing mechanism successfully caught broken features, significantly improving code delivery reliability.
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