--- title: adam bien's blog | daily.dev description: Coding agents benefit enormously from Quarkus Dev Mode's live reload and continuous testing features. While a 30-second restart is a minor annoyance for a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/adam-bien-s-blog-uxuciayu6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: adam bien's blog | daily.dev og:description: Coding agents benefit enormously from Quarkus Dev Mode's live reload and continuous testing features. While a 30-second restart is a minor annoyance for a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/adam-bien-s-blog-uxuciayu6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UxuciAYu6.png og:image:alt: adam bien's blog 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. # adam bien's blog **[Adam Bien](https://daily.dev/sources/adam-bien)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Coding agents benefit enormously from Quarkus Dev Mode's live reload and continuous testing features. While a 30-second restart is a minor annoyance for a human developer hitting it a few times per hour, an agent iterating 200 times would exhaust its entire budget waiting. Quarkus Dev Mode eliminates restarts by reloading on the next HTTP request and automatically re-running tests on code changes, cutting the feedback loop to under a second. For Java CLI apps without Dev Mode, the zb build tool achieves similarly fast cycles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why do AI coding agents use Quarkus dev mode instead of restarting the JVM each time? Quarkus dev mode live-reloads code on the next HTTP request and reruns affected tests automatically via continuous testing, so an agent gets immediate compile, test, and endpoint feedback without rebuilding or restarting. A thirty-second restart that barely bothers a human running it five times an hour consumes an agent's entire iteration budget across hundreds of edit cycles. _Anyone tuning AI agent workflows around Quarkus can track iteration-speed tips like this on daily.dev._ ### How can I speed up build iteration for a Java CLI application that has no dev mode? Use the zb build tool, which builds Java CLI applications fast enough to keep the edit-test loop as tight as Quarkus dev mode provides for web apps, even without a live-reload dev mode feature. It is offered as a practical alternative for CLI projects that otherwise lack that fast feedback loop. _Developers hunting for faster Java build loops can follow tool picks like zb on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why your coding agent shouldn't be your QA system](https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-coding-agent-shouldn-t-be-your-qa-system-p3wg9nmqm) · QA Wolf · 2 upvotes · 1 comments - [New Dev Services Api](https://daily.dev/posts/new-dev-services-api-hpxz8jedz) · Quarkus · 17 upvotes · 0 comments - [Testing Is the New Bottleneck for AI-Driven Software Development](https://daily.dev/posts/testing-is-the-new-bottleneck-for-ai-driven-software-development-azhhistin) · MetalBear · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [foojay – a place for friends of OpenJDK](https://daily.dev/posts/foojay-a-place-for-friends-of-openjdk-lwyzoctef) · Foojay.io · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#quarkus](https://daily.dev/tags/quarkus) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/adam-bien-s-blog-uxuciayu6) ```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":"adam bien's blog","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/adam-bien-s-blog-uxuciayu6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/adam-bien-s-blog-uxuciayu6"},"datePublished":"2026-07-22T15:51:48.056Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:14:12.129Z","description":"Coding agents benefit enormously from Quarkus Dev Mode's live reload and continuous testing features. 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