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>This is the problem: your judgement is biased. You think it was a good idea, but in reality, you have no real idea if it was or not. My judgement is based upon my experience tryin…

It's predicting that you will predict wrong frequently enough to make it not worthwhile predicting at all. I apply the same logic at slots: the way to win is not to play. >Creating…

>Building speculative structure can be a forcing function to establish requirements Sure, if you're doing it as a spike but if you're not throwing the code away then it functions a…

YAGNI is simply a tacit recognition that you can't predict the future with any reasonable level of certainty. The reason it is controversial is that some devs truly believe that th…

This study seems to be mainly about the value of vibe coded tests and not at all about TDD. Perhaps unsurprisingly it found that vibe coded tests suck. As a card carrying member of…

yes, there is some yak shaving necessary to make writing tests possible. There is often a tension between delivering fast and high quality/bug free and what is necessary for medica…

Iterate on the design til the snapshots look the way the design team wants. That's just an extended red where you get feedback from elsewhere.

Um, show the snapshot to a designer? When it feels right, lock in the snapshot ("green") and then move on to refactor. Or, probably more likely a group of snapshots.

snapshot test driven development again. i already wrote a similar answer in response to your other comment. it follows the definition of TDD and it works really well (with some cav…

https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory/approach/snapshot-test-drive... set up a rendering profile and preconditions that generates a minimal snippet of images/video using a predefined GPU…

That is a flaw with unit tests written at far too low a level, not with TDD. You would have the same problem if you wrote tests like that after the code. TDD has no opinion about t…

The problem with gherkin is that it was a badly designed language. The general idea of "readable specification language" was an inspired one but it failed on execution - it has gna…

Yes, except a test can be turing complete - i.e. code. An executable spec like gherkin or hitchstory is config - it has no loops or conditionals. There are a number of rarely recog…

Ive almost never worked on a project where there was the right number of QAs who were doing the right thing. Usually there either arent any in which case bugs get missed or there a…

Really? The best people I worked with were never QA. Moreover, the best QAs would almost always try to be not QA - to shift into a better respected and better paid field. I wish it…

I never said he was "truly independent" nor meant to imply it. Nonetheless it looks like he was both willing and able to push back on a good deal of the AI stupidity raining down f…

It operated with an independent CEO for a long while. When I saw his interview: https://thenewstack.io/github-ceo-on-why-well-still-need-hum... i thought "oh, there is some semblan…

This makes much more sense as an zoom-buys-keybase style acquihire. I bet within a month the astral devs will be on new projects. Bundling codex with uv isnt going to meaningfully …

any of them.

Putting LLMs on a pedestal is very much in vogue these days.

Humans have the ability to retrospect, push back on a faulty spec, push back on an unclarified spec, do experiments, make judgement calls and build tools and processes to account f…

I've been trying to push people to use hitchstory or similar to generate docs from specification tests precisely to avoid that redundancy but most people just look blankly at it an…

Youve been able to hire a dirt cheap Indian or fillipino living on poverty wages in those countries to knock out cheap crap for a long time.

This is all good advice.