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Unpopular Opinion?
What's an unpopular opinion in your field?
eg: Integration tests are a scam.
Their complexity grows faster than the codebase they’re testing. They’re sensitive to changes anywhere in the system. And like for what? If every time I make a change I break an integration test then it provides no value. It’s just testing if a change was made.
- ianai 3y agoIn search of the unpopular: Having CPUs mostly sitting idle is wasteful. Modern software/algorithms/users should use their machines more effectively. (Maybe it's through fewer cores/resources used to higher utilization to achieve the same UX as today. Or software/algos better written to make pegging resources more common.) Also, modern web dev is terrible. Privacy matters. /soapbox
- mytailorisrich 3y agoExisting integration tests should fail if you make a change that impacts the behaviour of a module and beyond. That's the whole point. My unpopular opinion is that usually there are already too many people working on a project.
- dave4420 3y agoAll existing programming languages are shit. Software engineers in a hundred years will wonder how we managed with such primitive unergonomic tools.
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