Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent

By Martin Fowler January 27, 2026 · Edited February 5, 2026

Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using a coding agent affects internal code

Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using a coding agent affects internal code quality by adding a feature using the agent, and seeing what happens to the code.

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Reference: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/ccmenu-quality.html