Should half-built agents touch your real Gmail? Devs weigh test-account pain
aofu_dev · reddit · 2026-09-10
A developer of open-source agent-testing tooling asks how others handle early-stage agent development: building OAuth flows and test accounts just to validate ideas, and whether people connect half-built agents to their real Gmail or Slack, or use separate accounts and sample data.
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