We’ve entered the era of "vibe coding." With the rise of Generative AI and LLMs, code is being produced at a velocity we’ve never seen. It’s tempting to believe that the days of meticulous manual testing are over, that the AI is "smart enough" to get it right.

In reality, the opposite is true. In this session, David Burns argues that Test-Driven Development (TDD) is more critical now than it was twenty years ago. When code becomes a commodity, the developer’s primary value shifts from writing syntax to defining intent and verifying correctness.

We will explore a modern workflow where the developer acts as a Technical Director: defining the contract, locking down the tests as an immutable "Source of Truth," and utilizing AI coding agents to handle the implementation. We’ll specifically dive into how AI Planning features transform agents from black-box generators into predictable, logical collaborators. Learn how to stop "hoping" the AI got it right and start engineering with absolute confidence.

Key Takeaways
The Illusion of Productivity: Why "vibe coding" leads to technical debt and how to identify the "finish line" trap.

The "Hands-Off" Implementation: A practical workflow for pointing AI agents at failing tests without allowing them to move the goalposts.

Prompting for Intent: Shifting your mindset from asking for features to asking for verifiable behaviors.

The Power of the Plan: How to use agentic planning features to review architectural decisions before a single line of implementation code is written.

Maintaining Control: Why TDD is the ultimate guardrail for managing the complexity that AI conceals.