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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • The problem with automated tests is that they only test for the narrow slice of things you actually think to test for. They don’t cover the gamut of things you didn’t think to test for.

    They also only test how you write them to test for, which means if you make a bad assumption somewhere along the way your tests can’t help you find it.

    Peer reviews cover two very important things:

    1. Knowledge sharing and de-siloing
    2. Logic and assumption checking

    A fresh set of eyes and a different perspective is just so important to writing robust, quality code.












  • The goalpost escalation I constantly see in these threads is both hilarious and deeply frustrating.

    “You need to be a good dev to use these!” “I am a good dev and these tools suck.”

    “No like you need to be enterprise level good” “I am an enterprise level dev with credentials far exceeding the baseline offered.”

    “No but you need to have written code recently!!” “I was writing code yesterday.”

    I am now waiting for the obligatory “well your coworkers must just be fixing all your code you screw up” because the pro-ai crowd has no argument for the tech not based on “u suk”.