People don't want to hear it, but this should be more common practice especially for human written code, and it's best if someone specializes in doing this sort of QA testing specifically.
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You should definitely read the code, but the strict acceptance for generated code is a good starting place.
I don't know what those first two sentences are doing. This kind of thing is exactly what mesmerized young me and puts wise me off.
One thing worse than appealing to authority is appealing to your own authority.
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I choose to believe this is satire. Also that this man holds no significant position of prominence within the industry.
/cope
this man holds no significant position of prominence within the industry.
I wish that was true but I've had to specifically countermand his teachings at 2 different companies because newbies were being told to read his book
Bob is a shithead
Is this an "I am a very stable genius" confession for sloperators, or is there something I'm missing? 🤔
So... test driven agent developments?
It just means he is not doing anything important, in other words he doesnt have any specific thing in mind and it doesn't matter if it works exactly right or not.
It looks like it's working and for some people that's enough.
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Why am I not surprised that he is a big proponent of AI coding considering his background ...
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In my experience, agents tend to write functions significantly longer than 12 lines. Where's your clean code Bob?
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