TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?

· Martin Fowler · Aug. 11, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
software development Best Practices test-driven-development LLM Agents
Summary
The blog post discusses the effectiveness of Test-Driven Development (TDD) in the context of using LLM agents for software development, sharing insights from experiments conducted by Birgitta Böckeler to assess its actual value versus its perceived benefits.
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