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AI Software Development Is Near-Impossible (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find AI is amazing at writing unit tests

Some of my coworkers say this too. The tests are generally garbage that don't test what they say they do. All this says is that you don't care how useful your tests are outside of checking a box

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes you have to verify it yourself you don't just trust it. The biggest benefit is tests are extremely to read and falsify like simple scripts. It's faster to generate it than type it by hand, and any edits I make are minimal or require a reprompt that gets it right the second time.