Uncle Bob on constraining coding agents with coverage, complexity and mutation testing
bibryam · x · 2026-11-07
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) explains how he constrains coding agents not with prompts but with hard engineering gates: coverage checks, complexity checks, mutation testing to verify test quality, and manual spot checks. The idea is to limit agent freedom with machine-verifiable quality gates instead of relying on post-hoc human review.
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