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Go ahead and have claude add and run units tests for you as part of the PR review process.
by waynecochran 3mo ago
Go ahead and have claude add and run units tests for you as part of the PR review process.
- jmalicki 3mo agoThat's on the submitter of the PR to do. Don't put that burden on the reviewer.
- waynecochran 3mo agoNo problem for claude. In fact I would have claude do the PR and go have lunch.
- danhorner 3mo agoClaude can’t have lunch yet.
- TimorousBestie 3mo agoI don’t get paid to do my job and then also the submitter’s job.
- shusaku 3mo agoClaude is absolutely terrible at writing unit tests, this advice continues to perplex me. Coding agents usually slam you with hundreds of lines that do little more than “test” what is obvious. Maybe it’s good for an API revision or such. But for linear algebra where errors might not manifest unless suitably chosen inputs are generated based on expert knowledge, that’ll be useless.
- waynecochran 3mo agoHave you used Claude lately? It definitely will outperform a human at this task now.
- shusaku 3mo agoI use it literally every day. But please do not use it to generate tests on its own, it’s all sleight of hand. It does not (without substantial guidance and tweaking from an expert) have the capability to generate meaningful tests.