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>>strayd+(OP)
>The people really leading AI coding right now (and I’d put myself near the front, though not all the way there) don’t read code. They manage the things that produce code.

I can’t imagine any other example where people voluntarily move for a black box approach.

Imagine taking a picture on autoshot mode and refusing to look at it. If the client doesn’t like it because it’s too bright, tweak the settings and shoot again, but never look at the output.

What is the logic here? Because if you can read code, I can’t imagine poking the result with black box testing being faster.

Are these people just handing off the review process to others? Are they unable to read code and hiding it? Why would you handicap yourself this way?

>>kace91+Ek
> What is the logic here?

It is right often enough that your time is better spent testing the functionality than the code.

Sometimes it’s not right, and you need to re-instruct (often) or dive in (not very often).

>>Aeolun+6o
I can’t imagine retesting all the functionality of a well established product for possible regressions not being stupidly time consuming. This is the very reason why we have unit tests in the first place, and why they are far more numerous in tests than end-to-end ones.