Doug Parker 🕸️ on Nostr: With #AI becoming more prominent, I wonder if this will shift the way we write our ...
With #AI becoming more prominent, I wonder if this will shift the way we write our tests.
Unit tests will become less useful as the nuances of the implementation become less important. Maintainability is less of a concern and a human can't effectively review unit tests without a lot of context.
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