Code quality still matters even as LLMs make writing code much faster.

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• Code quality still matters even as LLMs make writing code much faster DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson13 May 2025LLMssoftware quality
• A language-agnostic conformance suite is the most powerful thing you can hand a coding agent, because the whole instruction becomes: write code until these tests pass. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026software quality
• A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026software quality
• A test suite is not strictly necessary to rebuild something. ARArmin Ronacher1 Nov 2026software quality
• Adding a config option so nobody breaks compounds into permutations no test suite can cover, because it is infinitely harder to evolve software that has users. PSPeter Steinberger10 Aug 2026software quality

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