In this episode, Toby and Krisztian welcome their first proper guest: Alan Richardson, a 30-year software veteran and testing specialist known as Evil Tester. They dig into testing in the AI era: how to test AI-generated code, whether TDD still makes sense with AI, why self-healing tests are a red flag, and how AI is opening up security and adversarial testing. Alan makes the case for architecture-first development as the key to getting good test output from AI agents.

Chapters

0:00 Introduction and guest intro: Alan Richardson (eviltester.com)

2:00 Why testing matters more in the AI code generation era

5:30 Architecture-first: good code leads to good tests

10:00 Does TDD work with AI? Why it mostly doesn't

14:30 Playwright and UI tests: the abstraction problem

23:00 Information theory and what testing actually is

27:00 Adversarial AI testing: using AI to exploit your own CVEs

33:00 Security scanning tools vs penetration testing with AI

38:30 Domain expertise still matters

43:00 Generalist vs specialist in the AI era

47:00 The junior developer pipeline problem