alt Hacker NewsLet's rephrase:
Since nobody involved actually cares whether the code works or not, it doesn't matter whether it's a different wrong thing each time.
Let's rephrase:
Since nobody involved actually cares whether the code works or not, it doesn't matter whether it's a different wrong thing each time.
You got it completely backwards. The claim is that if the code does exactly what the spec says (which generated tests are supposed to "prove") then the actual code does not matter, even if it's different each time.