| ▲ | marcosdumay 9 days ago | |
If LLMs can generate a test for you, it's because it's a test that you shouldn't need to write. They can't test what is really important, at all. Some development stacks are extremely underpowered for code verification, so they do patch the design issue. Just like some stacks are underpowered for abstraction and need patching by code generation. Both of those solve an immediate problem, in a haphazard and error-prone way, by adding burden on maintenance and code evolution linearly to how much you use it. And worse, if you rely too much on them they will lead your software architecture and make that burden superlinear. | ||
| ▲ | williamcotton 9 days ago | parent [-] | |
Claude wrote the harness and pretty much all of these tests, eg: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query/blob/mai... It is a good test suite and it saved me quite a bit of typing! In fact, Claude did most of the typing for the entire project: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query BTW, I obviously didn't just type "make a lexer and multi-pass parser that returns multiple errors and then make a single-line instance of a Monaco editor with error reporting, type checking, syntax highlighting and tab completion". I put it together piece-by-piece and with detailed architectural guidance. | ||