That’s right, you heard right! At long last, we can stop talking about this ridiculous practice. We can stop chastising ourselves and pretending that you can “test” something that doesn’t exist yet.

Just kidding. But for real: agentic coding is moving fast and leaving haunted houses behind. TDD could fix this, but people who vibe code aren't people who test-drive. And it's not their fault: TDD didn't catch on like it should have because its *name* was a lie.

Let's fix that. You'll walk away from this talk with vocabulary that unlocks what TDD was always trying to be — and a skill you can teach your agents today.

(If it isn't clear from the abstract, I am absolutely a TDD advocate. This is a tongue-in-cheek way to reframe the conversation and show how essential this practice is as we move into coding with agents more than in IDEs.)