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▲ layer8 4 hours ago

I’m not talking about formal verification, but about diligent informal or semi-formal reasoning through the code, so that you can rightfully claim that you understand the code and will be unlikely to be surprised by its behavior. Having learned formal verification does train that form of exhaustive reasoning about properties of the program. This practice also has you structure the code such (and select your dependencies such) that you can reason about all relevant properties. This is perfectly applicable to what you’d call CRUD and enterprise applications (that’s half the projects I earn my living with). Testing and fuzzing are complementary, but not a substitute by any stretch.

▲jonahx 4 hours ago | parent [-]

GP is correct. Very few people were capable of even the informal analysis you are describing, and fewer did it. I'm not saying it's not valuable... just stating that, empirically, it rarely happened.

▲IAmBroom 3 hours ago | parent [-]

And layer8 is saying (two responses upwards by them) that this is a novel benefit of AI: it can do a particularly thorough and repetitive kind of fault analysis that is a real PITA for humans to do (by their nature, versus the nature of computers).