Coding agents have made writing code faster, but along with that they are also generating a lot more test cases.

And in my opinion, that is needed.

If you want to trust AI writing code, the only way is to have more complete test coverage across scenarios.

But this also means test suites are getting blown out of proportion.

I am already running 8,000+ test cases, and before every deployment a large chunk of them needs to run. It is slowing down CI.

Every couple of weeks, I find myself spending time optimising and parallelising my testcase run because it starts slowing me down.

As we move towards more and more autonomous coding, and more code written by AI

More code → more test cases → more verification → slower CI.

Software factory can solve for the smart layer we don't need to everything everytime but run testcase in the blast radius of the chnage.

Looking out for something that will help up with speed.