How to Make Your Coding Agent Check Its Work in the Browser
I got tired of coding agents telling me the frontend work was done when nobody had opened the frontend. You've probably seen the routine. The agent changes some code, runs the formatter, the type checker, and the tests, everything comes back green, and you get some version of "Implemented and verified." But verified how, exactly? A passing test suite is useful evidence, but it isn't the same as opening the app and using the thing that just changed....
I got tired of coding agents telling me the frontend work was done when nobody had opened the frontend. You've probably seen the routine. The agent changes some code, runs the formatter, the type checker, and the tests, everything comes back green, and you get some version of "Implemented and verified." But verified how, exactly? A passing test suite is useful evidence, but it isn't the same as opening the app and using the thing that just changed....