Inb4 the agents change the tests to pass the CI.
Or my Claude favorite, “oh you’re right? I did blow past that restraint and did something I was not supposed to, sooooorrrrreyyyyy” <posts south park meme to console>
literally seen an agent do a: “oh now the tests aren’t passing” deletes all tests in the file
Been coding for about 30 years now, am I the only one who still LIKES to code? Who still LIKES to try writing a new approach to something, watching it fail, figuring out what went wrong, taking notes, learning from mistakes, and noticing improvements in their own code? Cuz it’s starting to feel like it. Web development already lost me with the culture of “glue a bunch of bulky shit together that you didn’t write and call yourself a ‘dev’ to the ladies” but this AI shit is getting absurd. And it doesn’t even work! Look at how shitty all the operating systems are getting. Look at all the total slop on the app stores. It’s depressing as hell.
We need to build a culture that values process and making beautiful things for their own sake, not simply Pile Dollars Higher, which is killing the planet and making us all miserable.
I love coding and learning new languages. I’d rather move to another industry than reviewing vibe coded crap all day long.
So what exactly is he wrong about in here? Are you people running your agents without guardrails and constraints?
I still writing my own code. I want to be able to debug it when it goes wrong, not rely on models becoming more capable at vibe coding.
“I stopped reading code because I was too busy writing a gauntlet of unit tests”
Sounds like 100x productivity to me.
Edit: also, general note - I think you kneecap your argument when you start with “I’m older than you”.
There is a 0% chance he wrote all those tests himself anyway
I hope he at least read them.
Nah, then he wouldn’t have been saving any time.
Claude summarized 'em
He didn’t, but he has unit tests for them.
