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[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 95 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

"I stopped reading code because I was too busy writing a gauntlet of unit tests"

Sounds like 100x productivity to me.

Edit: also, general note - I think you kneecap your argument when you start with "I'm older than you".

[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 34 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

There is a 0% chance he wrote all those tests himself anyway

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 23 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I hope he at least read them.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 22 points 20 hours ago

Claude summarized 'em

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He didn't, but he has unit tests for them.

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago

Made me laugh out loud, ty

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago

Nah, then he wouldn't have been saving any time.