4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Erik says AI agents are now good at writing tests, unlike a few years earlier when he considered this a major weakness.

Unresolved speaker · Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO · 22 Oct 2026

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“Agents are actually really good at writing tests these days, which was like, you know, a few years ago, I, I thought, like, one of the major things missing in agents. Now they're actually quite good at, like...”
“'Cause I think it takes a little bit of, like, sort of, kind of like need to step out of what you're trying to do for a second and be almost a little bit like devil's advocate to write good tests.”
“But now they're actually quite good at writing tests too. So I think, I think all these things help.”
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