[harimau777]

Honestly, unit tests (at least on the front-end) are largely wasted time in the current state of software development. Taking the time that would have been spent on writing unit tests and instead using it to write functionally pure, immutable code would do much more to prevent bugs.

There's also the problem that when stack rank time comes around each year no one cares about your unit tests. So using AI to write unit tests gives me time to work on things that will actually help me avoid getting arbitrarily fired.

I wish that software engineers were given the time to write both clean code and unit tests, and I wish software engineers weren't arbitrarily judged by out of touch leadership. However, that's not the world we live in so I let AI write my unit tests in order to survive.

[DiscourseFan]

You are overvaluing “clean code.” Code is code, it either works within spec or it doesn’t; or, it does but there are errors, more or less catastrophic, waiting to show themselves at any moment. But even in that latter case, no single individual can know for certain, no matter how much work they put in, that their code is perfect. But they can know its useable, and someone else can check to make sure it doesn’t blow something else up, and that is the most important thing.

[msh]

I like unit tests when I have to modify code that someone made years ago, as a basic sanity check.