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ManuelKiesslinglast Tuesday at 10:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Isn‘t it funny how that’s exactly the kind of stuff that helps a human developer be successful and productive, too?

Or, to put it the other way round, what kind of tech leads would we be if we told our junior engineers „Well, here’s the codebase, that’s all I‘ll give you. No debuggers, linters, or test runners for you. Using a browser on your frontend implementation? Nice try buddy! Now good luck getting those requirements implemented!“


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Wowfunhappylast Tuesday at 10:25 PM

> Isn‘t it funny how that’s exactly the kind of stuff that helps a human developer be successful and productive, too?

I think it's more nuanced than that. As a human, I can manually test code in ways an AI still can't. Sure, maybe it's better to have automated test suites, but I have other options too.

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