Comment by rtpg
6 days ago
the cynical take is of course that the tests were written by Claude and not validated.
Unfortunately "automatic generation" of unit tests have made a big part of the value of unit tests ("I am telling you what I expect here") disappear.
I love how AI means that all human-written code is now perfect, and any problems are onbviously a symptom of vibe coding. Another few years of hearing this and I may begin to believe I only wrote perfect code, when my current memory suggests otherwise.
Nah, this is not uncommon in AWS. I came across a similar bug 10 years ago when playing with Kinesis and nearly had a heart attack at a $2m billing alert! Turns out it was just 5c