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		chrz 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, ca... In my last microservice I took over tests were written by juniors and med. devs using cursor and it was a big blob of generated crap that pass the test, pass the coverage % and are absolute useless garbage

tptacek 6 months ago [–]

If you're not a good developer, LLMs aren't going to make you one, at least not yet.

If you merge a ball of generated crap into `main`, I don't so much have to wonder if you would have done a better job by hand.

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