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Published by martinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler) (T1 source). The original is at https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/tdd-in-the-agent-loop.html.

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The summary and note below are generated by the signal pipeline — they are Beyond Desk’s reading, not quotations from the source.

Notes from a Thoughtworks Distinguished Engineer exploring whether test-driven development provides actual value when applied inside an AI coding agent's loop, or if it is cargo culting. Reports exploratory evaluation findings and hypotheses rather than comprehensive results.

A senior practitioner challenges the assumption that TDD transfers cleanly to agent loops, sharing firsthand hypotheses from an exploratory eval rather than echoing general pro-testing advice.

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