"My job now is torturing coding agents with test harnesses"
cjimti · x · 2026-09-24
@cjimti quips that he loves agentic coding, but his days have turned into dreaming up as many test harnesses as possible to torture agents with — a one-liner that sets up his fuller description of using 10x test density (including mutation testing) to constrain agent behavior, capturing a developer shift from writing code to designing agent constraints.
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