Uncle Bob Trusts His Agents

I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gantlet of all of my constraints and tests.

A screenshot of a social-media post from Uncle Bob Martin explains his strategy for using coding agents without reading their code. The joke is the contrast between his confidence in AI-generated code and the rigorous testing and constraints he imposes, while responding to claims that LLMs cannot produce proper code.

• @dev_meme / 8297 2026-07-24