verbose test suites
1 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 2, 2026 by Simon Willison · across every show →
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Apr 2, 2026 positive
Willison: AI coding agents make verbose, extensive test suites economical
“If you look at a repo and there's huge amounts of tests that aren't really doing anything interesting, that's really expensive because now when you change the code, you've got to update a thousand lines of tests and all of that.
It turns out I don't care anymo…”