Programmer Humor

gherkin tests?

Uncle Bob has always been a hack whose advice made code less maintainable.

So in other words he spends weeks to write extra tests so that the agent can save him days of coding.

I choose to believe this is satire. Also that this man holds no significant position of prominence within the industry.

/cope

So... test driven agent developments?

Even if it passes every test, it can be shit code that is hard to read and extend

I don't know what those first two sentences are doing. This kind of thing is exactly what mesmerized young me and puts wise me off.

One thing worse than appealing to authority is appealing to your own authority.

You should definitely read the code, but the strict acceptance for generated code is a good starting place.

In my experience, agents tend to write functions significantly longer than 12 lines. Where's your clean code Bob?

Holy technical debt, uncle Bob.

Bob is a shithead

We recently had an example of this. See Bun vs Zig. Even if your LLM doesn't have meaningless tests and assertions, those will not have 100% coverage on any non-trivial code base.