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The speaker says better testing tools reduce the verification bottleneck and help teams work faster by increasing confidence that agent-generated code has not introduced new problems.
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“software and tools that make testing better are just incredibly helpful there they just ease the verification bottleneck and make it possible for you to get more stuff done and move faster because you can have more confidence that the code generated by the agent is actually not introducing new problems”18:14Report a misattribution
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