Scripted tests can’t keep up with AI-written code. Datadog is betting agents can.
The rapid adoption of agentic AI for code generation has shifted the software development bottleneck from writing code to testing it. With engineers at companies like Anthropic shipping 8x more code, traditional scripted testing can't keep pace. Datadog's acquisition of Propolis adds agent-written, goal-oriented test generation to its observability platform, allowing AI to explore applications, follow user flows, and generate tests from plain-language prompts while leveraging logs and traces for validation.
Key points
- AI-powered code generation has moved bottleneck from writing to testing
- Some engineers now ship thousands of PRs per month
- Datadog acquired Propolis to enable AI-driven autonomous test generation
- Agent-generated tests integrated with observability reduce hardcoded testing fragility
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