Comment by mlsu
6 days ago
If you're writing your own tests, sure, AI is fast at writing code that passes the tests.
But if you write a comprehensive test suite for a problem, you've effectively done the hard development work to solve the problem in the first place. How did the AI help?
Oh have the AI write unit tests you say? Claude cheats constantly at the tests ime. It frequently tests the mock instead of the UUT and reports a pass. That's worse than useless! I'm sure a huge swath of slop unit tests that all pass is acceptable quality for a lot of businesses out there.
> But if you write a comprehensive test suite for a problem, you've effectively done the hard development work to solve the problem in the first place. How did the AI help?
By making you not write the implementation?
Also, the AI writing anything bad isn’t an excuse. You’re the one piloting that ship, and if not, you’re probably the one reviewing the code. It’s your job to review your own and others’ code with a critical eye, and that goes double in the LLM age.