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Comment by Silhouette

I have no shame in accepting vast quantities of ai generated automated tests at review time without really paying attention to them.

I respectfully disagree. IME writing a good test suite is one of the areas where current LLMs perform worst. They certainly like to write plenty of tests but those tests aren't necessarily adding much value and they don't necessarily cover the important functionality.

Given how heavily LLMs and specifically agentic workflows still rely on producing something vaguely correct and then iteratively applying guard rails to reach something that actually works I humbly suggest that trusting a very substandard test suite to be one of those guard rails might be unwise.

parent Silhouette 12 days ago

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