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twister2920 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

> to do this I had to give up reading or even controlling the code and focusing on behavior/design-level control (not superficial, still dictating overall technical architecture)

how do you verify the behavior? are you still writing or at least reading tests or just doing manual testing?

bthornbury 28 days ago [–]

I discuss the testing approach and coverage with the model before and after, sometimes in a fresh thread that does a static analysis.

interestingly my input is still pretty important

twister2920 27 days ago | [–]

> interestingly my input is still pretty important

how do you know?

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