--- title: A cruel irony of coding agents is that… | daily.dev description: AI coding agents face a paradox: developers who historically avoided automated testing now instruct AI to follow test-driven development practices. However,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-cruel-irony-of-coding-agents-is-that--hu5nqnfzm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A cruel irony of coding agents is that… | daily.dev og:description: AI coding agents face a paradox: developers who historically avoided automated testing now instruct AI to follow test-driven development practices. However,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-cruel-irony-of-coding-agents-is-that--hu5nqnfzm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hU5NqNfzM.png og:image:alt: A cruel irony of coding agents is that… og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A cruel irony of coding agents is that… **[Justin Searls](https://daily.dev/sources/searls)** · 1 min read · 25 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary AI coding agents face a paradox: developers who historically avoided automated testing now instruct AI to follow test-driven development practices. However, since large language models were trained on decades of poorly written tests, the resulting AI-generated tests are equally problematic, perpetuating the cycle of low-quality test code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@musikk** · 4 upvotes > Not my experience, I think it's awesome. Occasionally I have to delete some overeager tests and rarely I have to ask for something else. But overall I'm very impressed. --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#tdd](https://daily.dev/tags/tdd) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-cruel-irony-of-coding-agents-is-that--hu5nqnfzm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A cruel irony of coding agents is that…","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-cruel-irony-of-coding-agents-is-that--hu5nqnfzm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-cruel-irony-of-coding-agents-is-that--hu5nqnfzm"},"datePublished":"2025-10-12T11:05:04.234Z","dateModified":"2025-10-12T11:05:20.230Z","description":"AI coding agents face a paradox: developers who historically avoided automated testing now instruct AI to follow test-driven development practices. 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