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by chowells 30 days ago
Oh, it's worse than that. I've seen a rise in mutation testing, intended to ensure any change in implementation is caught by tests. Think about that for a moment. It's giving a fancy name to creating brittle tests than fail if any line of code is changed.

And this is seen as a good thing, because LLMs are really bad at confining their changes appropriately. Testing is really in a dark place right now.