[AstroBen]

This is fantasy completely disconnected from reality.

Have you ever tried writing tests for spaghetti code? It's hell compared to testing good code. LLMs require a very strong test harness or they're going to break things.

Have you tried reading and understanding spaghetti code? How do you verify it does what you want, and none of what you don't want?

Many code design techniques were created to make things easy for humans to understand. That understanding needs to be there whether you're modifying it yourself or reviewing the code.

Developers are struggling because they know what happens when you have 100k lines of slop.

If things keep speeding in this direction we're going to wake up to a world of pain in 3 years and AI isn't going to get us out of it.

[raw_anon_1111]

I’ve found much more utility even pre AI in a good suite of integration tests than unit tests. For instance if you are doing a test harness for an API, it doesn’t matter if you even have access to the code if you are writing tests against the API surface itself.

[AstroBen]

I do too, but it comes from a bang-for-your-buck and not a test coverage standpoint. Test coverage goes up in importance as you lean more on AI to do the implementation IMO.