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by derdi 20 days ago
You: >>> You want comprehensive tests at every level, far more than is reasonable for a human to build or maintain

Also you: > You have to iterate on the tests, review and validate them

Yes, "maintain" is not quite the same as "review", but the line is veeery fine. I find it really tiring to review masses of tests that an agent spews out.

Especially because I know what it has a tendency to write irrelevant/vacuous/useless tests. It's insane the amount of times I have told Codex to "write a test that reproduces the reported bug, SEE THE TEST FAIL, then implement a fix", only for it to guess an irrelevant test, not run it to see it fail, and implement a code change that has nothing to do with either the test or the actual bug.