davidbau.com Hunting Zombies
Is it possible to write good code without reading it? Right now a debate is raging between Andrew Kelley and Jarred Sumner about whether tests are "sufficient to catch bugs in 1 million lines of unreviewed slop."
Hunting Zombies Is it possible to write good code without reading it? Right now a debate is raging between Andrew Kelley and Jarred Sumner about whether tests are "sufficient to catch bugs in 1 million lines of unreviewed slop." The standard view in the community is that "yes, you can do it if you test it well." But I think that view vastly oversimplifies the challenge. Testing a million-line codebase is harder than it seems. So in this post we will crack open the problem with some specifics. We will take a look at some AI-written code to see one of the core challenges facing AI-driven…
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