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One thing I've noticed using agents for coding is that they really like to write thousands of unit tests but not dynamically test.
by sakuraiben 4mo ago
One thing I've noticed using agents for coding is that they really like to write thousands of unit tests but not dynamically test.
- make3 4mo agoyou can just tell them to do more dynamic testing. I think dynamic testing is partly frowned upon because it slows things down & can take down software where you wouldn't expect
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- drivebyhooting 4mo agoAnd they like to burn a ton of tokens writing and debugging tests that are semantically corrupt.
- gib444 4mo agoAnd AWS heavily pushes a complex lambda solution stringing together as many chargeable AWS services as possible for a simple requirement Their interests are often not your interests. In this case they want you to unnecessary money on useless work (let's stop the euphemism of "tokens" btw)
- simianwords 4mo agoThis kind of cute conspiracy theories don’t actually hold true in real life. The companies want to make useful products.
- gib444 4mo agoThey're all just in it for the love of making customers happy, for sure. Amazon actually donates all their profit to charity. Bez os is currently building a foundation to shift all his wealth to, and he's going to become an alpaca farmer /s
- esperent 4mo agoUnit tests are a type of dynamic testing. As opposed to static testing which is linting/typechecking etc. If you want a difference kind of dynamic testing besides unit tests, have you tried writing it in as a requirement during the planning/PRD phase?