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Why Regression Tests Will Remain Essential, Even with Smarter AI and Formal Verification

Why Regression Tests Will Remain Essential, Even with Smarter AI and Formal Verification
September 30, 2026|By Hans Dockter|12 min read

No AI, however smart, can guarantee that a change breaks nothing that worked before. With agents making more changes, regression tests matter more, not less.

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Anthropic Just Wrote the Best Case for Buying Predictive Test Selection

September 24, 2026

Anthropic Just Wrote the Best Case for Buying Predictive Test Selection

Anthropic proved test selection is mandatory at agentic volume, and what building it costs. You don't have to: Predictive Test Selection has you covered.

5 min read

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Your Developers Are Still Paying for Your Toolchain

September 2, 2026

Your Developers Are Still Paying for Your Toolchain

The same loop bills you twice: once in tokens and compute, once in developer productivity. Only half of that bill is visible. The other half hides in salaries.

8 min read

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Your Toolchain Is Production Now

August 24, 2026

Your Toolchain Is Production Now

AI agents remove the human shock absorber that hid the cost of slow builds and flaky tests. Your toolchain is now a production system. Treat it like one.

9 min read

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How much better is your AI agent with real build data?

August 17, 2026

How much better is your AI agent with real build data?

We ran the same model on the same problems and changed one variable: access to real build data. With it, 36 of 40 runs solved. Without it, 4.

12 min read

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The Phantom Executor: Debugging Develocity with Develocity

August 14, 2026

The Phantom Executor: Debugging Develocity with Develocity

A NullPointerException fired 3,145 times over three months. Two AI models, a disciplined debugging method, and Develocity's own build data cracked it.

12 min read

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