"because I was diligent about test coverage, sonnet 4.5 perfectly converted the entire parser to tree-sitter for me. all tests passed."
I often suspect that people who complain about getting poor results from agents haven't yet started treating automated tests as a hard requirement for working with them.
If you don't have substantial test coverage your coding agents are effectively flying blind. If you DO have good test coverage prompts like "port this parser to tree-sitter" become surprisingly effective.
I often suspect that people who complain about getting poor results from agents haven't yet started treating automated tests as a hard requirement for working with them.
If you don't have substantial test coverage your coding agents are effectively flying blind. If you DO have good test coverage prompts like "port this parser to tree-sitter" become surprisingly effective.