Optimize Your Test Suite Early: Slow Tests Make AI Agents Crawl
johnlindquist · x · 2026-10-15
Developer John Lindquist argues that while optimizing/benchmaxxing your testing tools shouldn't be the very first thing you do in an AI agent workflow, it's close: nothing is worse than waiting for agents to finish running slow test suites, so test speed directly gates agent iteration efficiency.
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