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When I Entrusted TDD to an AI Agent
Community description: How I gradually removed confirmation gates, added behavioral and architectural guardrails, and learned to let Codex CLI practise TDD autonomously.
Dev.to | Sep 12, 2026 | Renan Franca
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The agent implemented the production code and helped me refactor it. Delegating production code while retaining the tests allowed me to preserve that process. Moving production code does not automatically justify moving tests. I can require a failing behavior test before production code changes. The agent owns the individual TDD cycles.
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