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Re:Agentic Engineering Patterns by ep103 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:04AM (#47249491)
Counter-point, developers that get used to not caring about function implementation, are going to culturally also not care as much about test implementation, making this proposed ideal impossible.
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Re:Agentic Engineering Patterns by lmf4lol on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:04PM (#47251363)
with LLMs, tests cost nearly nothing of effort but provide tremendous value.
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Re:Agentic Engineering Patterns by contagiousflow on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:32PM (#47251759)
And you know those tests are correct how?
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Re:Agentic Engineering Patterns by simonw on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:41PM (#47252742)
Look at what they are testing.
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Re:Agentic Engineering Patterns by camgunz on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @09:44PM (#47256856)
> wow that's a lot of code, how will we ever review it?

>> have a model generate a bunch of tests instead

> wow that's a lot of test code, how will we know it's working correctly?

>> review it

> :face-with-rolling-eyes:

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