When Agents Learn to Test Themselves: TDFlow and the Future of Software Engineering
A bug report is not a specification A bug report says something is wrong. A test says exactly how wrong must fail. That difference is the centre of TDFlow, a test-driven agentic workflow for repository-scale software repair.1 The paper’s central move is not to make the coding agent more charismatic, more autonomous, or more burdened with inspirational tool access. Mercifully. It does almost the opposite: it narrows the agent’s world until the task becomes executable. ...