Lada Kesseler: I Trust AI Tests Less Than AI Code

The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow
25 August 2026 45 min
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Episode Description
Lada Kesseler's approach to loop engineering is brutally simple: give the agent one step, make it write the result to a file, then read it back and go again. She calls it a centrifuge. Spin fast enough and the stupid comes out.The Logic20/20 principal engineer has spent the last year and a half building the ground rules, skills and refinement loops that fight the defaults coding agents ship with, starting with an instruction to stop trying to please her. Along the way she explains why she trusts

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