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The first move on a legacy code base is tests you can trust, before a single line of the code itself is changed.

Drawn from what George Hotz said

Subjectsoftware quality
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software quality Whether a program is any good and how anyone would know: tests, review, debt, and what a suite cannot cover.

On the topicWhat are tests for, and how much testing is enough?under our view: Coding agents make tests matter more than they ever did

What George Hotz actually said

  1. George Hotz American programmer and hacker
    I mean, the first thing that I would do is build tests. The first thing I would do is get a CI to where people can trust to make changes. Before I touched any code, I would actually say, “No one touches any code. The first thing we do is we test this code base.”

    Where this was said

    Watch from 2:14:03 plays here

    ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com

    29 Jun 2023 · video · 3h 08m · spoken · official transcript

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