AI-Assisted Development with Agentic IDEs · Lesson 4
Agentic Workflows: Plan, Build, Test
A reliable loop: ask the agent to explore and propose a plan, review the plan, then let it implement in small steps, running tests after each.
Test-driven prompting works well: write or have the agent write failing tests first, then implement until they pass.
Break big features into small tasks. Small diffs are easier to review and less likely to go off track.
Key points
- Explore → plan → implement → test
- Review the plan before code
- Tests first gives clear targets
- Small tasks, small diffs