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Anthony Sciamanna
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Anthony Sciamanna's personal blog at anthonysciamanna.com covers programming and career. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment describes a Learning Tests idea for getting AI agents to build reliably, and links to the blog's post on AI-written tests. It does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Anthony Sciamanna is a software engineer and drummer interested in music education. Writing and talks on extreme programming, AI-assisted development and developer experience.
What Hacker News says?
Many times there is really no way of getting around some of the expert-human judgement complexity of the larger question of "How to get agents to build reliably". One example I have been experimenting is using Learning Tests[1]. The idea is that when something new is introduced in the system the Agent must execute a high value test to teach itself how to use this piece of code. Because these should be high leverage…
Comment linking /2019/08/22/the-continuous-value-of-learning-tests.html
on “You hired the AI to write the tests. Of course they pass”Submitted Project Teams and Poor Code Quality as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted TDD is not a testing practice as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted XUnit Is Not Unit Testing as a story · 1 points
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