[sakuraiben]

One thing I've noticed using agents for coding is that they really like to write thousands of unit tests but not dynamically test.

[drivebyhooting]

And they like to burn a ton of tokens writing and debugging tests that are semantically corrupt.

[gib444]

And AWS heavily pushes a complex lambda solution stringing together as many chargeable AWS services as possible for a simple requirement

Their interests are often not your interests. In this case they want you to unnecessary money on useless work (let's stop the euphemism of "tokens" btw)

[simianwords]

This kind of cute conspiracy theories don’t actually hold true in real life. The companies want to make useful products.

[gib444]

They're all just in it for the love of making customers happy, for sure. Amazon actually donates all their profit to charity. Bez os is currently building a foundation to shift all his wealth to, and he's going to become an alpaca farmer

/s

[esperent]

Unit tests are a type of dynamic testing. As opposed to static testing which is linting/typechecking etc.

If you want a difference kind of dynamic testing besides unit tests, have you tried writing it in as a requirement during the planning/PRD phase?

[make3]

you can just tell them to do more dynamic testing. I think dynamic testing is partly frowned upon because it slows things down & can take down software where you wouldn't expect