What Edwin Chen thinks about software quality

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Founder and CEO of the AI data company Surge AI; earlier a machine-learning engineer at Twitter, Google and Facebook.

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1. 20 Oct 2026, 21:36 UTC

   Our readingJudging coding agents by whether their unit tests pass is like promoting an engineer for the same reason.

   coding agents

   Their wordsimagine promoting an engineer because their unit tests pass. that's basically how we've been evaluating coding agents.

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