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by LPisGood 7 days ago
Or better yet: effectively fake unit tests. It is almost never the case that tests written by AI detect actual issues. At most they detect that has changed.
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Yeah I’ve been thinking that LLM unit tests are basically snapshot tests. Just sorta ossify things in place. If they break, you just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and have the LLM fix them. It’s like they were never there!

So it’s just like the olden days of everybody ignoring tests, but we give anthropic a ton of cash