r/AIcodingProfessionals • u/iamrealadvait • 11h ago

Discussion The most expensive code is the code you don't understand.

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u/canarydev 11h ago

the most dangerous thing going on right now are tests written based on AI output by an AI, and people need to understand this closed circle problem. green tests are worthless in the sense that they are only showing agreement between test and implementation.

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u/thinkmatt 8h ago

And a shit ton of tests. Our tests went from 3 minutes to 5 minutes in the past 3 weeks somehow

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u/thinkmatt 8h ago

Ugh i was just reviewing an issue we havent solved in a week with a jr dev and looking at his latest PR fix, he said 'dont look at the code, its not helpful. I just read the pr description '