Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme
by chamomeal on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:21PM
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It’ll cheat a lot when writing unit tests. Particularly “agentic” tools like cursor. It’ll get a test to pass, even if it’s against a laughably incorrect implementation.
I’ve ended up with tests called stuff like “foobar successfully returns impossible value that suggests programmer error” lmao
Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme
by mikeocool on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:28PM
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My favorite thing Claude code has been doing recently is adding second totally separate implementation of whatever I asked it to write tests for, and writing the tests against that.
Conveniently, when it then changes the original implementation, the tests don’t fail!
Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme
by queenkjuul on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:08AM
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This is just about the only type of test i see it write lol
Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme
by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:59PM
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Yeah, or "bug was pre-existing and not my fault so shrug, here's a TODO and we'll just say it passed" (not those exact words, but close)
You make the framework and it colours in the lines. If you don't draw the pattern first you're going to get a kindergarten mess. There are times I'm amazed by its suggestions but it will also cheat and "lie" and if you're not paying attention, you'll miss it.
But these days many tasks for me consist of: I need this, look how I did it here before, and follow this exact pattern through to the end and write tests, too. And the results are usually exactly what I would have done. Because it is an excellent mimic. But if I hadn't put the work into the framework, it would be awful.