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Comment by otabdeveloper4

16 hours ago

> ...because LLMs are really good at writing tests.

No, they're absolutely shit at writing tests. Writing tests is mostly about risk and threat analysis, which LLMs can't do.

(This is why LLMs write "tests" that check if inputs are equal to outputs or flip `==` to `!=`, etc.)

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