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Re:My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures by simonw on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:25PM (#44598975)
Right, which is why having a comprehensive test suite is such an enormous unlock for this class of technology.

If your tests are good, Claude Code can run them and use them to check it hasn't broken any distant existing behavior.

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Re:My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures by dawnerd on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:49PM (#44599165)
Not always the case. It’ll just go and “fix” the tests to pass instead of fixing the core issue.
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Re:My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures by simonw on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:49PM (#44599627)
That used to happen a whole lot more. Recent Claudes (3.7, 4) are less likely to do that in my experience.

If they DO do that, it's on us to tell them to undo that and fix things properly.

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