When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It?

Re:When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? by scotty79 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:24AM (#47244279)

I wasn't able to force the agent to write failing tests yet. Although I'm sure it should be possible to do.

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Re:When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? by himlion on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:44AM (#47244383)

I do that all the time with Claude. What part is not working?

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Re:When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? by scotty79 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:29AM (#47245105)

I don't really use anthropic models. But when I tried it with others they can write tests but they never confirm that they fail before they proceed to make implementation that causes them to pass. Maybe I didn't prompt it forcibly enough.

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Re:When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? by catlifeonmars on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @07:39AM (#47246629)

I haven’t tried this (yet), but I’ve heard of people disabling write access to test code while the agent is writing implementation and vice versa. I imagine “disabling” could be done via prompting, or just a quick one liner like: chmod -r 0644 ./tests

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