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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I bet you their "10x coder" can't describe what a unit test is nor its purpose

Then again, can you even unit test AI generated slop with how often it's rewritten?

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unit tests are exactly for code that is often rewritten, because it ensures that whatever interface still behaves the same, regardless of the implementation. This a large portion of the point of unit tests: not for testing the initial implementation but confirming that any subsequent implementation behaves the same.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In a normal scenario yes, but "vibe coding" rewrites whole swaths of code. It's like painting detail with a bucket. Trying to keep up with it seems like a sisyphiean task

[–] python@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Using AI to write Unit tests is one of the few use cases I somewhat understand, but even that turns out horrible with improper supervision. I reviewed one Pull Request once where the testing was so horribly cobbled together and nonsensical that I rewrote those tests by hand (after asking the person I was reviewing to fix it twice and them only making it worse by letting their AI rewrite them)