Comment by chamomeal
3 days ago
Anecdotally, coworkers are writing a LOT more unit tests. By which I mean NOBODY is writing unit tests, but Claude is generating a ton of em. We’re talkin 300 lines of unit tests for 20 line changes that are already covered by other, better kinds of tests. Huge JSON objects of test data that we already have generators for, etc
> but Claude is generating a ton of em. We’re talkin 300 lines of unit tests
Of course - it is setting itself up for more token consumption later: when a small change is needed, it may have to parse/adjust 10,000s or 100,000s lines of test data / code...
A sensible senior developer would recognise the shackle that huge brittle tests suits can become and correct course. But this is against Anthropic's business strategy