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Comment by wrs

6 hours ago

A few models ago it was not unusual to find that Claude had written tests whose assertions looked correct, but were so thoroughly mocked out that they ran no real code at all — a Potemkin test.

I haven’t seen it do that in quite a while, but it was an interesting failure mode!

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