Comment by ManuelKiessling
8 days ago
Isn‘t it funny how that’s exactly the kind of stuff that helps a human developer be successful and productive, too?
Or, to put it the other way round, what kind of tech leads would we be if we told our junior engineers „Well, here’s the codebase, that’s all I‘ll give you. No debuggers, linters, or test runners for you. Using a browser on your frontend implementation? Nice try buddy! Now good luck getting those requirements implemented!“
> Isn‘t it funny how that’s exactly the kind of stuff that helps a human developer be successful and productive, too?
I think it's more nuanced than that. As a human, I can manually test code in ways an AI still can't. Sure, maybe it's better to have automated test suites, but I have other options too.
AI can do that too? If you have a web app it can use playwright to test functionality and take screenshots to see if it looks right.
Yeah, but it doesn't work nearly as well. The AI frequently misinterprets what it sees. And it isn't as good at actually using the website (or app, or piece of hardware, etc) as a human would.
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But then the AI would theoretically have to write the playwright code. How does it verify it's getting the right page to begin with?
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