How does it handle questions asked by Claude?
It sends a flag that dangerously allows Claude to just do whatever it wants and only give us the final answer. It doesn't do the back-and-forth or ask questions.
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#12> codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ coverage in the next few weeks I had a coworker do this with windsurf + manual driving awhile back and it was an absolute mess. Awful tests that were unmaintainable and next to useless (too much mocking, testing that the code “works the way it was written”, etc.). Writing a useful test suite is one of the most important parts of a codebase…
I find coding agents can produce very high quality tests if and only if you give them detailed guidance and good starting examples. Ask a coding agent to build tests for a project that has none and you're likely to get all sorts of messy mocks and tests that exercise internals when really you want them to exercise the top level public API of the project. Give them just a few starting examples that demonstrate how to…
I've think they're also much better at creating useful end to end UI tests than unit or integration tests, but unfortunately those are hard to create self contained environments for without bringing a lot of baggage and docker containers, which not all agent VMs might support yet. Getting headless QT running was a pain too, but now ChatGPT Codex can see screenshots and show them in chat (Claude Code can't show them in the chat for some reason) and it's been generating much better end to end tests than I've seen for unit/integration.
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#13> codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ coverage in the next few weeks I had a coworker do this with windsurf + manual driving awhile back and it was an absolute mess. Awful tests that were unmaintainable and next to useless (too much mocking, testing that the code “works the way it was written”, etc.). Writing a useful test suite is one of the most important parts of a codebase…
Which language? I've found Claude very good at Elixir test coverage (surprisingly) but a dumpster fire with any sort JS/TS testing.
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#14> codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ coverage in the next few weeks I had a coworker do this with windsurf + manual driving awhile back and it was an absolute mess. Awful tests that were unmaintainable and next to useless (too much mocking, testing that the code “works the way it was written”, etc.). Writing a useful test suite is one of the most important parts of a codebase…
I find coding agents can produce very high quality tests if and only if you give them detailed guidance and good starting examples. Ask a coding agent to build tests for a project that has none and you're likely to get all sorts of messy mocks and tests that exercise internals when really you want them to exercise the top level public API of the project. Give them just a few starting examples that demonstrate how to…
> I find coding agents can produce very high quality tests if and only if you give them detailed guidance and good starting examples.
I find this to be true for all AI coding, period. When I have the problem fully solved in my head, and I write the instructions to explicitly and fully describe my solution, the code that is generated works remarkably well. If I am not sure how it should work and give more vague instructions, things don't work so well.
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#15Kudos on making Bash readable. ( https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude/blob/mai... )
im not saying OP did this, but I've actually had AI spit out some pretty stellar bash scripts, surprisingly
Re: Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop
#16Exactly what I needed! I might use it for test coverage on an ancient project I need to improve...
Re: Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop
#17> codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ coverage in the next few weeks I had a coworker do this with windsurf + manual driving awhile back and it was an absolute mess. Awful tests that were unmaintainable and next to useless (too much mocking, testing that the code “works the way it was written”, etc.). Writing a useful test suite is one of the most important parts of a codebase…
I find coding agents can produce very high quality tests if and only if you give them detailed guidance and good starting examples. Ask a coding agent to build tests for a project that has none and you're likely to get all sorts of messy mocks and tests that exercise internals when really you want them to exercise the top level public API of the project. Give them just a few starting examples that demonstrate how to…
Left to his own devices, I found Claude liked to copy the code under test into the test files to 'remove dependencies' :/
Or would return early from playwright tests when the desired targets couldn't be found instead of failing.
But I agree that with some guidance and a better CLAUDE.md, can work well!
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#19> codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ coverage in the next few weeks I had a coworker do this with windsurf + manual driving awhile back and it was an absolute mess. Awful tests that were unmaintainable and next to useless (too much mocking, testing that the code “works the way it was written”, etc.). Writing a useful test suite is one of the most important parts of a codebase…
I find coding agents can produce very high quality tests if and only if you give them detailed guidance and good starting examples. Ask a coding agent to build tests for a project that has none and you're likely to get all sorts of messy mocks and tests that exercise internals when really you want them to exercise the top level public API of the project. Give them just a few starting examples that demonstrate how to…
Indeed the case - luckily my codebase had some tests already and a pretty decent CLAUDE.md file so I got results I’m happy with.
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#20How does it handle questions asked by Claude?
It sends a flag that dangerously allows Claude to just do whatever it wants and only give us the final answer. It doesn't do the back-and-forth or ask questions.
The `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag (a.k.a. "YOLO mode") does do the back-and-forth and asks questions, so this is a bit more than that.