Yes, agreed. I just ressurected an old code base that I had never finished, as I really couldn't be bothered to test it properly. It would have been several weeks or even months doing this thankless task in my spare time, so wasn't going to happen.
Just for fun, I asked the AI assistant in IntelliJ (free trial) to write most of the tests for me. I was actually blown away. The tests were largely really good. In many cases they were more thorough than I would have bothered with. Even when it didn't manage to write good tests on its own, the AI complete as I was writing them myself was incredibly useful. Most of the time it would predict the line I was going to write next, just press tab to accept.
I did have to review the tests, and there were a few minor mistakes I had to correct. The entire process took about 4 hours - and I was trying it out for the first time.
So this is a massive time saver for me, and lets me take on coding in future I would simply not have had the patience to complete.
Just for fun, I asked the AI assistant in IntelliJ (free trial) to write most of the tests for me. I was actually blown away. The tests were largely really good. In many cases they were more thorough than I would have bothered with. Even when it didn't manage to write good tests on its own, the AI complete as I was writing them myself was incredibly useful. Most of the time it would predict the line I was going to write next, just press tab to accept.
I did have to review the tests, and there were a few minor mistakes I had to correct. The entire process took about 4 hours - and I was trying it out for the first time.
So this is a massive time saver for me, and lets me take on coding in future I would simply not have had the patience to complete.