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>> It's just not that good beyond basic tasks. A ton of dev work is basic tasks, esp writing unit tests.
by TuringNYC 2y ago
>> It's just not that good beyond basic tasks.
A ton of dev work is basic tasks, esp writing unit tests.
- faizshah 2y agoIt’s not even good at writing unit tests. It’s good at writing bad unit tests but that’s not the same thing.
- energy123 2y agoHave you tried o1-pro or o1-2024-12-17?
- tjpnz 2y agoIME the tests these tools write are complete shit and need to be rewritten by hand.
- otabdeveloper4 2y agoI get you hate writing unit tests (we all do), but in reality it's a more technically difficult and intricate problem than writing business logic code itself. Testing is the very last place I'd trust an AI.
- hamandcheese 2y agoThe hard part is knowing what to test. Once I do, AIs do a pretty good job at doing most of the typing for me.
- benterix 2y agoActually writing tests often requires more contextual knowledge than writing code itself.
- tessierashpool9 2y agowriting useful unit tests is not basic at all. it's only basic if it's purpose is to lift the test coverage.
- blast 2y agoThis is unrelated but I just wanted to thank you for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901622 as it's too late to reply there. You put your finger on something really interesting there!
- tessierashpool9 2y agoprobably the last comment i'd have expected an explicit thank you for. but anyway, you're welcome. care to share why it feels so relevant to you?
- blast 2y agoOnce I read your comment I could feel that quality (something uncanny valley about his "empathy") in those videos, which I hadn't picked up on before you pointed it out.