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Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme by chamomeal on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:21PM (#45190870)
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

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Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme by mikeocool on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:28PM (#45190944)
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!

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Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme by queenkjuul on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:08AM (#45194705)
This is just about the only type of test i see it write lol
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Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:59PM (#45191745)
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)
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Re:All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme by csar on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @09:29PM (#45191961)
“70% of tests pass. This codebase is ready for production!”
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