--- title: Beyond Best Practices | daily.dev description: Sebastian Bergmann argues that code reviews, comprehensive testing, static analysis, and documentation are not merely best practices but essential control... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-best-practices-oyz0lgcsc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Beyond Best Practices | daily.dev og:description: Sebastian Bergmann argues that code reviews, comprehensive testing, static analysis, and documentation are not merely best practices but essential control... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-best-practices-oyz0lgcsc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OYz0Lgcsc.png og:image:alt: Beyond Best Practices 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. # Beyond Best Practices **[PHPUnit Expert](https://daily.dev/sources/phpunit-expert)** · 18 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sebastian Bergmann argues that code reviews, comprehensive testing, static analysis, and documentation are not merely best practices but essential control mechanisms for safe agentic AI development. As AI agents shift from assistants to autonomous contributors, these practices define the specification layer that constrains AI behavior and preserves human agency. The piece covers TDD with AI agents (humans write tests, AI generates implementations), the role of ADRs and coding guidelines in constraining AI solution spaces, and the deskilling risk for junior developers who use AI heavily but benefit less than seniors. Bergmann also raises broader concerns about open source sustainability and platform dependency as agentic infrastructure concentrates in corporate hands. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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