All articles tagged with testing
SQLite figured this out years ago: their code is public domain, but their test suite costs $120k. Now AI can clone your repo in minutes, but it can't replicate the years of edge cases and behavioural contracts encoded in comprehensive tests. The moat just shifted.
Functional tests said everything worked. Health checks returned green. Then I asked my agent its name and it told me it was Claude. Complete personality loss. Here's why personality diagnostics matter when your agent can pass every test while being completely empty inside.
The 'test-only, zero code review' workflow sounds fire until you realise you're just trading one hell for another. LLMs aren't compilers, context windows hit physical limits, and someone still has to review all those AI-generated test cases. Spoiler: that someone is you.