Justin SearlsOct 12

A cruel irony of coding agents is that everyone who blew off automated testing for the past 20 years is now telling the AI to do TDD all the time.

But because LLMs were trained on decades of their shitty tests, the agents are also terrible at testing.

Show threadChristof Damian 💙💛Oct 12
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And people suddenly start to write long documents to explain to the robots how a project works and how it should be developed, after avoiding writing the simplest README for the last 20 years.
Show threadMatt PalmerOct 12

@cdamian you mean that "Flingblat is a rewrite of Blat in Fling, using the snarbleglue framework" is as incomprehensible to a machine as it is to a human? I'm shocked and appalled.

@searls

Show threadJonathan YuOct 13
@womble @cdamian @searls mood: https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in! 

annie's blog
Show threadMatt Palmer
@jawnsy there is truly nothing worse than having your hoob-tunnel clogged with gramelions.
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