Comment by dxroshan
17 hours ago
> The AI takes care of the tedious line by line what’s-the-name-of-that-stdlib-function parts (and most of the tedious test-writing parts)
AI generated tests are a bad idea.
17 hours ago
> The AI takes care of the tedious line by line what’s-the-name-of-that-stdlib-function parts (and most of the tedious test-writing parts)
AI generated tests are a bad idea.
AI generated tests are genuinely fantastic, if you treat them like any other AI generated code and review them thoroughly.
I've been writing Python for 20+ years and I still can't use unittest.mock without looking up the details every time. ChatGPT and Claude are great at that, which means I use it more often because I don't have to deal with the frustration of figuring it out.
Just as with anything else AI, you never accept test code without reviewing it. And often it needs debugging. But it handles about 90% of it correctly and saves a lot of time and aggravation.
Well, maybe they just need X lines of so-called "tests" to satisfy some bullshit-job metrics.