Comment by bamboozled
21 days ago
Most developers don't love writing tests, or updating documentation, or working on tricky dependency updates
So they won’t like working on their job ?
21 days ago
Most developers don't love writing tests, or updating documentation, or working on tricky dependency updates
So they won’t like working on their job ?
You know exactly what they meant, and you know they’re correct.
I like updating documentation and feel that it's fairly important to be doing myself so I actually understand what the code / services do?
I use all of these tools, but you also know what "they're doing"...
I know our careers are changing dramatically, or going away (I'm working on a replacement for myself), but I just like listening to all the "what we're doing is really helping you..."
I'd interpret the original statement as "tests which don't matter" and "documentation nobody will ever read", the ones which only exist because someone said they _have_ to, and nobody's ever going to check them as long as they exist (like a README.md in one my main work projects I came back to after temporarily being reassigned to another project - previously it only had setup instructions, now: filled with irrelevent slop, never to be read, like "here is a list of the dependencies we use and a summary of each of their descriptions!").
Doing either of them _well_ - the way you do when you actually care about them and they actually matter - is still so far beyond LLMs. Good documentation and good tests are such a differentiator.
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