Verification-ready software: agents will force code optimized for cheap failures
arpit_bhayani · x · 2026-09-23
Arpit Bhayani argues that as AI agents take over the heavy lifting in software development, software will be increasingly optimized for verification — and that's not a risk. He proposes the concept of "verification-ready software": failures should be cheap to spot, cheap to debug, cheap to fix, and more importantly, cheap to trigger. Agents will navigate software and test every edge case, so exposing failures cheaply should become a core design goal.
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