> We will offer a free (rate-limited) service that everyone can use, once we have sorted out the legal issues regarding the possibility of mixing code snippets originating from open-source projects with different licenses (e.g., GPL-licensed tests will simply refuse to pass BSD-licensed code snippets).
Well, looks like they sorted em out!
siva7 · 16m ago
> We are pleased to announce the Real TDD, our latest innovation in the Program Synthesis field, where you write only the tests and have the computer write the code for you!
Boy would they only know 10 years later you don't even need to write tests anymore. Must feel like Sci-fi timeline if you warped one of these blog authors into our future
Kuraj · 58m ago
If I didn't read past the concept and the date I would've accepted it as real without a blink of an eye
hinkley · 37m ago
It probably could though. Or at least to the extent that declarative languages ever really work for real world problems.
But iif you perfected it then it would also be the thing that actually kills software development. Because if I told you your whole job is now writing tests, you’d find another job.
nemomarx · 8m ago
Isn't this project management, kinda? writing requirements and acceptance criteria and broad designs to hand off to a dev
jessekv · 25m ago
> We once saw a comment in the generated code that said "I need some coffee".
seanmcdirmid · 49m ago
We aren't really far off from that, perhaps.
hnuser123456 · 24m ago
We're beyond that, now we can vibecode both the tests and the implementation.
Well, looks like they sorted em out!
Boy would they only know 10 years later you don't even need to write tests anymore. Must feel like Sci-fi timeline if you warped one of these blog authors into our future
But iif you perfected it then it would also be the thing that actually kills software development. Because if I told you your whole job is now writing tests, you’d find another job.