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by gmontard 1206 days ago
Well, we're getting there, at least into proposing some fixes.

Automatically fixing is tricky, it means changing your code that can get automatically deployed in production without any other checks.. Dangerous. Not sure if you want to trust anyone to do that, tbh.

Also, considering all the edge-cases there are, it's impossible to guarantee that a fix won't break your code. If someone does, they just lie to you.

But I understand why you'd love that, as a developer, I do too :)

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> changing your code that can get automatically deployed in production without any other checks.

I’ve never worked at a place that didn’t have at least 2:

Code review checks

Qa checks

Automated testing

If an edge case breaks the code, then great! The developer can fix it (if the tool can’t). Even if 2% of the time, the system fixes it properly that’s 2% of the time the developer didn’t have to roll up their sleeves.

I agree, in theory :)

But I’m happy you say that and gives me hope our future automated remediation suggestion can be easily adopted.

I think these tools have to have the automation baked into the checks from v0. Adding it later can be a mess without the right abstraction.