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No. I’ve heard this argument multiple times before - “let the human review and write tests” - and sure it might work, but this is almost never practiced. AI makes coding a lot faster, so no one is really ready to spend time on manual review and writing tests when LLMs can do that as well and take you most of the way.


This is evidence of culture problems in whatever teams you are a part of, or extrapolating what you see on social media to all of software engineering.

We still have a very strong review culture, and people work hard to review their own code before making PRs to avoid wasting other people's time.


The AI will not only write you subtly wrong code, it'll also write you as many tests as you want that are also subtly wrong and pass when run.




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