are we just re-inventing playwright tests except 10x slower and infinity times more expensive?

i feel like im going insane

since the rise of agentic coding tools, it feels like we're in a new "eternal september" of people discovering ui end-to-end test automation.

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acdha 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also the merits of documentation and specs. It’s been eye-opening to see the subset of developers who were almost disdainful about writing documentation for their colleagues but are now tripping over themselves to do so for their clanker.

	▲	Daishiman an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Agents read the docs. People don't. That's the underlying reason.
	▲	simianwords 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Clanker is the new excuse to use hard R against something you don't like.

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inigyou 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People are rediscovering everything. Some people have proposed using a more formal language to tell the AI precisely what code to write. That's a compiler.

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righthand 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well playwright tests used to be called puppeteer tests which used to be called selenium tests, so you tell me.