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"Making it easy to run tests with a single command. We used to do development & run tests via docker over ssh. It was a good idea at the time. But fixing a few things so that we could run tests locally meant we could ask the agent to run (and fix!) tests after writing code."

Good devops practices make AI coding easier!

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> Good devops practices make AI coding easier!

Good devops practices make coding easier!

This is one of the most exciting things about coding agents: they make a lot of tooling that was so tedious to use it was impractical now ultra relevant. I wrote a short post about this a few weeks ago, the idea that things like "Semgrep" are now super valuable where they were kind of marginal before agents.

And also the payoff for “minor” improvements to be bigger.

We’ve started more aggressively linting our code because a) it makes the ai better and b) we made the ai do the tedious work of fixing our existing lint violations.

It can automate a lot of the tediousness for static typing, too

The fact that you have to describe things in text suddenly made a few companies also publish API documentation as llm.txt and the content is what I wish they published for people instead.

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