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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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Wrong tests will make you feel safe. And in the worst case, the next developer that is going to port the code will think that somebody wrote those tests with intention, and potentially create broken code to make the test green.
Exactly! I've seen plenty of tests where the test code was confidently wrong and it was obvious the dev just copied the output into the assertion instead of asserting what they expect the output to be. In fact, when I joined my current org, most of the tests were snapshot tests, which automated that process. I've pushed to replace them such with better tests, and we caught bugs in the process.