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Re:Ask HN: Have you stopped underestimating AI yet? on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:35PM (#49757624)
Mu.
Re:How well do agents use test/verification techniques? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:37PM (#49631595)
Few months ago I was debugging an integration with a no-code library that ships code in a custom binary format. I still smile thinking at the following test I read

assertThrows(RuntimeException.class, () -> callFoo(notABinaryFile)); //well, foo library is very complex, obviously this test throws!

Re:How well do agents use test/verification techniques? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:00PM (#49630656)
Do you have specific strategies on handling equivalent mutants?
Re:How well do agents use test/verification techniques? on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:51AM (#49605704)
If I understood correctly, the author had the agent perform manual mutation testing (write code, write passing tests, manually change the code to see some tests fail, then revert the change), rather than automated mutation testing. Why not use a mutation-testing framework and consider the build failed if a certain percentage of mutations are not killed?

The article claims that the agents didn’t actually use TDD or mutation testing. While it’s possible for an agent to ignore the TDD procedure even when instructed to follow it, it can’t ignore a build failure.

Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:56PM (#49579547)
Currently a tiny fraction of what is formalizable is of interest to mathematics; maybe humans will stop doing "serious" mathematics, but mathematics is beautiful and we will not stop playing with math, like we did not stop playing chess.

I would love to see a theory in the spirit of Guerino Mazzola work, but for (combinatorial) games.

Re:Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:39AM (#48801026)
I was reading your comment, disagreeing with it but still feeling why this is a good comment. It just occurred to me that this is not science: science must be reproducible and this is just an historical report on artifact that will be unavailable soon.
Re:Software Architecture Guide on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:49AM (#48524800)
If writing code is tactics, architecture is strategy. The end goal is just the desired outcome.