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jaggederesttoday at 5:31 PM1 replyview on HN

> One thing however is a test suite is not usually exhaustive in the sense that any code that passes the tests is valid. Usually tests are more complimentary in nature.

Not in the world of AI - if your tests don't catch any known issues, the problem is the tests aren't comprehensive enough. There's no excuse at this point not to have an incredibly comprehensive test suite, to go with your other agent feedback loop constraints


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osigurdsontoday at 7:05 PM

>> if your tests don't catch any known issues, the problem is the tests aren't comprehensive enough.

Maybe I misunderstand but this seems like a fairly low bar in the test suite only covers existing bugs.

I'd argue that if you aren't going to look at the code you actually need a fully comprehensive test suite - in the sense that if the tests pass, the code is correct and you don't have to look at it at all. The problem is, that isn't very quick to create it seems. Of course, if there is a way to do it quickly in a way that is reproducible by others I'd love to hear about it.

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