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Re:Launch HN: Sweep (YC S23) – A bot to create simple PRs in... by thomasrockhu on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:57PM (#36990947)
Tom from Codecov here. This is so true, 80% is usually a much more reasonable approach. It’s better to write good tests than all the tests.

(Shameless plug) I wrote a short post about this here: https://about.codecov.io/blog/the-case-against-100-code-cove...

Re:Launch HN: Sweep (YC S23) – A bot to create simple PRs in... by williamzeng0 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:59PM (#36990975)
I really liked the blogpost! We're hoping to change point 2 (Engineering Time is Finite) with Sweep, so hopefully we don't have to make a tradeoff between a high quantity/quality of tests.