Keep Calm and Test On: Quality Assurance in the Age of Agentic Development
← Back to Blog Home Keep Calm and Test On: Quality Assurance in the Age of Agentic Development The Software Life by: Eric Cuffney July 23, 2026 TwitterFacebookLinkedinHackernews Article summary Happy Path? More like Crappy Path Skills pay the bills Use the Darn Knowledge Base Developers May Have Downtime, Use It Don't let the team disappear along with the busywork Agentic development is fast. An agent can scaffold a feature, write the tests it thinks it needs, and open a pull request before you’ve finished your morning coffee.
- ▪← Back to Blog Home Keep Calm and Test On: Quality Assurance in the Age of Agentic Development The Software Life by: Eric Cuffney July 23, 2026 TwitterFacebookLinkedinHackernews Article summary Happy Path?
- ▪More like Crappy Path Skills pay the bills Use the Darn Knowledge Base Developers May Have Downtime, Use It Don't let the team disappear along with the busywork Agentic development is fast.
- ▪An agent can scaffold a feature, write the tests it thinks it needs, and open a pull request before you’ve finished your morning coffee.
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← Back to Blog Home Keep Calm and Test On: Quality Assurance in the Age of Agentic Development The Software Life by: Eric Cuffney July 23, 2026 TwitterFacebookLinkedinHackernews Article summary Happy Path? More like Crappy Path Skills pay the bills Use the Darn Knowledge Base Developers May Have Downtime, Use It Don't let the team disappear along with the busywork Agentic development is fast. An agent can scaffold a feature, write the tests it thinks it needs, and open a pull request before you’ve finished your morning coffee. That speed is real, and agentic development is not going away. Which means the QA analysts who thrive in this brave new world won’t be the ones raging against it.
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