The Hidden Tax of AI Coding (And How to Eliminate It)

AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code have revolutionized development speeds, accelerating output by up to 10x. But there is a massive hidden tax if you want to prevent shipping slop: Test Maintenance.

When you ship a new feature at this velocity, you don’t just risk old tests being "broken." You risk them becoming outdated. You don't just need them to pass; you need them to accurately reflect the new flows your users take.

The Maintenance Bottleneck

Traditionally, keeping your test suite in sync with rapid development is a painful process. It usually involves:

• Constant context switching.

• Digging through complex DOM selectors.

• Manually rewriting scripts to cover new steps.

  
  

This friction often forces teams to choose between slowing down development or letting their test coverage rot.

Introducing Conversational Test Updates

At Decipher AI, we believe updating a test should be as intuitive as explaining the change to a colleague. We treat test updates like a conversation with someone who knows your product inside and out.

With our new Computer Use Agent, you don't rewrite code to update a test. You just ask for the change.

Whether you added new tabs, inserted new steps into the checkout flow, or completely overhauled a modal, you simply describe the new requirement in plain English.

How It Works

Once you describe the change, our Computer Use Agent takes over to handle the heavy lifting:

1. Interprets Intent: It understands your request and interacts directly with your live UI.

2. Verifies Behavior: It adds the specific assertions you ask for to ensure the product behaves exactly as expected.

3. Ensures Stability: It iterates on the flow to guarantee robustness.

4. Generates Script: It converts those actions into fast, reliable Playwright scripts.

Beyond Self-Healing

It is important to distinguish this from standard "self-healing" tests. We already handle self-healing automatically for minor UI changes.

This is AI-driven test expansion. It allows you to actively evolve your test suite alongside your product features without touching a line of code.

You keep shipping features. Let the agent handle the regression suite.