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skeledrew • today at 8:06 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

How much understanding is needed? If it works as specified (you did a complete spec and occasional check-ins to ensure things are on track and then tested the delivery, right?), then what more is needed?


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joshuahedlund • today at 9:38 PM

Understanding is needed when something breaks and you need to fix it immediately. Otherwise you become a meat proxy and now you’ve added Anthropic’s uptime as a single point of failure to your application.

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AstroBen • today at 8:12 PM

So you just click around the UI, assuming there is one?

Can you break down for me exactly how the unit and integration tests are made? Do you ask the AI what to assert?

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bluefirebrand • today at 8:15 PM

> (you did a complete spec and occasional check-ins to ensure things are on track and then tested the delivery, right?)

I have never in my career been afforded the time to make a complete spec.

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