The power of agentic coding is that the same agent can write, build, run and test the code—and then tweak it according to that. Closed loop is what actually makes this work. Open loop sucks.
Note that this is not AI-exclusive. Human programmers also suck at producing working code without access to a compiler or an ability to test the code.
If you can’t run closed loop for some reason, then, do the cheap stupid version of it and paste the errors you get into the AI’s chat window.
The dirty little secret is that “quality assurance” on code borders on non-existent in a solid 60% of the cases—enterprise or no enterprise, AI or no AI. Features ship broken and failures surface in prod. The same mitigations that apply to human-induced faults apply to AI-induced faults—assuming anyone gives enough of a fuck to have any.
The power of agentic coding is that the same agent can write, build, run and test the code—and then tweak it according to that. Closed loop is what actually makes this work. Open loop sucks.
Note that this is not AI-exclusive. Human programmers also suck at producing working code without access to a compiler or an ability to test the code.
If you can’t run closed loop for some reason, then, do the cheap stupid version of it and paste the errors you get into the AI’s chat window.
The dirty little secret is that “quality assurance” on code borders on non-existent in a solid 60% of the cases—enterprise or no enterprise, AI or no AI. Features ship broken and failures surface in prod. The same mitigations that apply to human-induced faults apply to AI-induced faults—assuming anyone gives enough of a fuck to have any.