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NoClaude · 9 Nov 2026

It seems Claude took "exhaustive tests" to mean "exhaust the compute resources of the Jenkins node"

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Our whole suite runs in 30-40min but lately it could exceed an hour

In the thread “On Being an Engineer in 2026”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Generated tests exhausted compute resources and targeted disabled features.

… Our whole suite runs in 30-40min but lately it could exceed an hour and then fail. It seems Claude took "exhaustive tests" to mean "exhaust the compute resources of the Jenkins node". What's worse is it wrote those tests for features that have been disabled and would soon be rewritten anyway.[1] I've always said that LLMs are great for generating test suites and this is the first time an LLM "failed" this assignment for me. …