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scared_togethertoday at 3:44 AM2 repliesview on HN

When I look at the commits themselves, most of the ones generated by Claude are testsuite changes, or at least labelled as such.

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/


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vips7Ltoday at 4:35 AM

Aren’t LLMs notorious for just making tests pass and not actually testing functionality?

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shimmantoday at 4:14 AM

Is that suppose to make this better? IME the most valuable tests are those that test specific regressions. It's the scaffolding we build for ourselves to enable feature development. Remove that scaffolding and you get accidents. Pray to your god of choice these accidents don't cause harm or loss of life.

It should really be considered negligence at this point. Some of this software is extremely valuable, it's how we flourish as humans. Purposely fucking with that should bear some real world consequence. We do the same in every other industry, software is just as important too.

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