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ivapeyesterday at 10:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Right. A computer can make more code than a human can review. So, forget about the universe where you ever review code. You have to shift to almost a QA person and ignore all code and just validate the output. When it is suggested that you as a programmer will disappear, this is what they mean.


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kace91yesterday at 10:55 PM

>You have to shift to almost a QA person and ignore all code and just validate the output.

The obvious answer to this is that it is not feasible to retry each past validation for each new change, which is why we have testing in the first place. Then you’re back at square one because your test writing ability limits your output.

Unless you plan on also vivecoding the tests and treating the whole job as a black box, in which case we might as well just head for the bunkers.