Uncle Bob Martin on X: "I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests." / X<br>Post

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Jul 22

I am trying to use Claude to help me write something, but I just don't feel comfortable letting it edit my files. Does anybody else feel the same? If I am responsible for code, I NEED to understand it, psychologically if for no other reason.

Started programming in 1983. Old?

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@rfleury

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Oh, okay. What did you build with this setup?

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@repojournal

22h

If we cannot trust the outcome of what AI makes and AI has proven over and over again that it will not listen to us at all times what gives us the confidence that it will stay within the guardrails of our constraints just because we asked it to?

If AI simply makes the judgement Show more

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@GeoffreyHuntley

18h

🎯 we need to engineer the constraint’s.

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