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by LAC-Tech 367 days ago
Perhaps the viewpoint that tests are a chore or grunt work; something you have to do but you don't really view as interesting or important.

(like how I describe what git should do and I get the LLM to give me the magic commands with all the confusing nouns and verbs and dashes in the right place).

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Yeah—I like writing elegant test abstractions much more than I like writing clumsy, verbose unit tests, and there's an inverse relationship between those. Maybe people just don't want to ever bother to refactor a test suite, and so early shortcuts turn into walls of boilerplate.