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You only worked on very small codebase then. When you work on giant ones, you Ctrl+F a lot, build a limited model of the problem space, and pray the unit tests
by xwolfi 1y ago
You only worked on very small codebase then. When you work on giant ones, you Ctrl+F a lot, build a limited model of the problem space, and pray the unit tests will catch anything you might have missed...
- akhosravian 1y agoAnd when you work on a really big codebase you start having multiple files and have to learn tools more advanced than ctrl-f!!
- ghurtado 1y ago> and have to learn tools more advanced than ctrl-f!! Such as ctrl-shift-f But this is an advanced topic, I don't wanna get into it
- ehnto 1y agoWe're measuring lengths of string, but I would not say I have worked on small projects. I am very familiar with discovery, and have worked on a lot of large legacy projects that have no tests just fine.
- jimbokun 1y agoWhy are LLMs so bad at doing the same thing?