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switchbak • yesterday at 7:14 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

In my experience Floci has been the epitome of vibe coded - huge amount of changes, with things breaking randomly between releases. Moved away from it as soon as I could. Still better than Localstack :)

I didn't have a good experience with test containers, but perhaps it'd work better with fast starting containers. We run our test fixture with compose, and have the tests manage their data in isolation - so we don't pay the startup penalty in our test suites.

I think I'd trust this project at least as much as Floci. Embedded Rust mode also looks very interesting for us.


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CharlieDigital • yesterday at 8:05 PM

I only use Testcontainers with "explicit" tests (do not run by default in CI; must be run explicitly). This lets agents exercise the integration with a realistic fake locally, but does not incur the cost in CI nor for any dev unless they run it explicitly (usually also with a category so it's explicit + category filter)