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[-] HexDecimal@feddit.online 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The important part is that the tests track regressions and they're helpful for that. After that, it's okay if tests are mostly write-only.

I've noticed that AI commentary tends to describe what the code is doing verbatim which is better for naming tests and functions rather than writing code comments, docstrings, or change notes. I usually have to fix this public-facing documentation to not talk about library internals which no user of the library would ever care about.

So far I feel that AI assists are good when you have the time and effort to push back on them, but that isn't an option for all projects, it works well for my own projects which have very few contributors in the first place. For the most part I can treat them with the same scrutiny as human written code. When the person submitting the code is obviously not checking their own code then that's a problem.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social -2 points 2 days ago

When the person submitting the code is obviously not checking their own code then that’s a problem.

If you're getting a high volume of those, it's time to just ban those users and move on.

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