Agentic manual testing

Simon Willison Blog
Generative AI

Agentic Engineering Patterns > The defining characteristic of a coding agent is that it can execute the code that it writes. This is what makes coding agents so much useful than LLMs that simply spit out code without any way to verify it. Never assume that code generated by an LLM works until that code has been executed. Coding agents have the ability to confirm that the code they have produced works as intended, or iterate further on that code until it does.