Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My biggest objection is unit tests. LLMs can actually be a useful tool for populating out unit tests. But of you let them run amuck, you get vast quantities of tests that add no value but now you have to maintain in perpetuity

  This one junior developer didn’t notice the ai brought in a whole new mocking tool for a few tests and didn’t understand my objection.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    LLMs can actually be a useful tool for populating out unit tests.

    My experience with this is the LLM commenting out the existing logic and just returning true, or putting in a skeleton unit test with a comment that says “we’ll populate the code for this unit test later”.

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      we’ll populate the code for this unit test later

      It’s so ridiculous, like an ancient Egyptian slave telling its master that “we will” “take care of it later”

      So stupid for an LLM to do

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had a dev add a load of unit tests that mocked values and then tested for the mocked values. I mean… They passed…

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  • black0ut@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Relying on a chance machine to thoroughly test your code sounds like a recipe for disaster

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  With emojis in it for extra flair!

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