Comment by the_harpia_io

yeah test-driven constraints help a lot - we've been moving that direction too, basically treating the agent like a junior dev who needs guard rails. the build+test gates catch the obvious stuff. but the trickier part is when tests pass but the code still isn't what you wanted - like it works but takes a fundamentally wrong approach, or adds unnecessary complexity. those are harder to catch with automation. re: LLM vs AI terminology - fair point, though I think the ship has sailed on general usage. most people just say AI to mean 'the thing that writes code' regardless of what's under the hood