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majormajortoday at 5:23 PM0 repliesview on HN

Yeah, a lot of "it doesn't matter how the code looks" convos seem to be ignoring that we know what happens over time when you just make tactical the-tests-still-pass changes over and over and over again. Slowly some of those tests get corrupted without noticing. And you never had the ENTIRE spec (and all the edge-case but user-relied-on-things) covered anyway. And then new dev gets way harder.