[HN Gopher] Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek ...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future
       of development
        
       Author : ben_s
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2024-02-23 22:04 UTC (55 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (read.engineerscodex.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (read.engineerscodex.com)
        
       | holoduke wrote:
       | I am using copilots now since a few months and it really makes me
       | a 2x more productive developer. Its like you become an
       | orchestrator of a dev team. You still need to look into details,
       | but things just flow much much faster. I can only imagine how it
       | will be like if I also have access to a AI debugger / end to end
       | tester. Completing the loop and making it super efficient. Also
       | think that this is not only the case for developers. Even for
       | lawyer it could be the same thing. Expected production output of
       | a worker is going to rise. The ones who do not embrace AI
       | assistants in the near future will have a hard time in the
       | future.
        
         | zdragnar wrote:
         | > Even for lawyer it could be the same thing
         | 
         | Funny you mention that, since lawyers have already gotten in
         | trouble for citing fictional cases when submitting work
         | performed by chatgpt.
         | 
         | It's useful for rote things, but for anything that you depend
         | on, you still need to give it just as much attention as if
         | you'd done it yourself.
        
           | qup wrote:
           | I agree, but it does change the shape of the work you would
           | be doing. Validating work isn't the same as generating new
           | work.
           | 
           | Whether that's better, or useful, probably differs by
           | situation.
        
         | unshavedyak wrote:
         | I still haven't figured out how people use this that much. I
         | use LLMs almost daily via ChatGPT, Phind, Kagi Ultimate (my
         | current one), etc. However i spend too much time pushing the
         | LLM towards my goal that i can't imagine it speeding my coding
         | up.
         | 
         | I clearly find value in LLMs to some degree, but speeding up my
         | coding is not yet one.. i'd love to, but i just don't
         | understand. I can only imagine typing more in explanation for
         | the LLM than it would take me to write it to begin with.
        
       | peter_l_downs wrote:
       | Bullshit fluff article. Just restated the paper no value add.
        
         | dvaun wrote:
         | Also inserted links from topics discussed earlier this week.
         | Lots of filler.
        
       | samsk wrote:
       | Finally some AI Codegen, that makes sense to me.
        
         | ShamelessC wrote:
         | Finally?
        
       | LASR wrote:
       | Everyone by now should be writing unit tests using ChatGPT4.
       | 
       | I paste in functions / classes I want to write unit tests for.
       | Paste in a sample unit test, and it does a solid job of writing
       | tests for it in the same manner as in the sample.
       | 
       | For unit tests, you don't even need the multi-step coverage
       | optimization in this article. You just manually inspect, adjust
       | it etc.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2024-02-23 23:00 UTC)