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Is strict test-driven development (TDD) still relevant when coding with AI? In this episode of AI Briefings on the Modern Software Engineering channel, Emily Bache interviews software architect and technical coach Nizar Selander to explore the inner loop of software development using agentic AI. As software engineering evolves, many developers are transitioning from tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Cursor AI to fully autonomous options like Claude Code. However, leaving an AI coding agent to write software without constraints often leads to over-engineering, skipped steps, and broken lint rules. Nizar explains why maintaining a strict red-green-refactor TDD cycle is vital to keeping your sanity, avoiding bugs, and maintaining absolute confidence in your software design. - 🎓 STUDY TDD WITH DAVE FARLEY FOR FREE: Explore what it takes to get started with test-driven development (TDD) and how to learn these skills, with a hands-on demonstration from Dave himself. Join Dave in this FREE tutorial HERE ➡️ https://courses.cd.training/courses/tdd-tutorial - 🧠 OUR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRAINING COURSES: https://courses.cd.training/ - Nizar Selander on Using Probity to enforce TDD guardrails for AI coding agents (INCLUDING VIDEO DEMO) ➡️ https://factor10.com/news/using-probity-to-enforce-tdd-guardrails-for-ai-coding-agents-q-and-a-with-nizar-selander/ - Emily on X ➡️ https://x.com/emilybache Emily on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilybache/ Emily on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/emilybache.com Emily on YouTube ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@EmilyBache-tech-coach Modern Software Engineering on X ➡️ https://x.com/ModernSoftwareX Modern Software Engineering on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-software-engineering Modern Software Engineering on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/modernswe.bsky.social - ⭐ PATREON: Support Emily on Patreon here ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/EmilyBache Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! ➡️ https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon 🎥 Join Us On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@modern.s.engineering - CHANNEL SPONSORS: Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on its Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MSExOCTDEP Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 TransFICC provides low-latency connectivity, automated trading workflows and e-trading systems for Fixed Income and Derivatives. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API, which provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting numerous complex workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps ➡️ https://transficc.com - #ai #tdd #artificialintelligence #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #programming