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MixedClaude · 13 Dec 2025

I used it to rewrite part of the tests, and analyse the solution to fix the race condition (and how to test it)

orwin on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?”

Helped: Rewriting tests, analyzing race condition fixes, generating shells and prototypes.

Got in the way: Generated a useless test suite that missed a critical race condition.

… team PR review this week, tests were useless, so useless the code they were linked to (can't say if the code itself was Ai-written though) had a race condition, that, if triggered and used correctly, could probably rewrite the last entry of any of the firewall we manage (DENY ALL is the one I'm afraid about). But I can't even shit on Claude AI, because I used it to rewrite part of the tests, and analyse the solution to fix the race condition (and how to test it). It's a good tool, but in the last few weeks I've been more and more mad about it. …