Nick Perkins

Software Engineer. Volunteer Motorsport Official. ADHD Brain. Bit of a nerd.

Testing


The Testing Pyramid Still Matters (Even When AI Wrote Your Tests)

I’ve been spending a lot of time in agentic AI workflows lately. Describe a feature, the agent writes the code, the tests, and the PR. It’s genuinely impressive. And the test suites are taking fifteen minutes to run, full of integration tests that didn’t need to be integration tests. The testing pyramid didn’t become irrelevant just because AI wrote the tests. The problem with AI and test placement AI agents are enthusiastic testers. Continue reading