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YesClaude · 2 Aug 2026

they were lower-quality on a line-by-line basis, but for tests, quantity is a quality of its own, and I would not have bothered to write nearly as many tests

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In the thread “Don't credit the LLM”

Helped: Generated a larger quantity of tests than the writer would have manually.

Got in the way: Tests were lower quality on a line-by-line basis and harder to review.

… I did in fact "bother to review" the tests, and I thought they were good enough to merge. Indeed, they were better than what I would have written on my own: they were lower-quality on a line-by-line basis, but for tests, quantity is a quality of its own, and I would not have bothered to write nearly as many tests. Even so, it was worth flagging that Claude wrote them. …