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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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New blogpost from Drew DeVault, titled "The cults of TDD and GenAI". As the title suggests, its drawing comparisons between how people go all-in on TDD (test-driven development) and how people go all-in on slop machines.
Its another post in the genre of "why did tech fall for AI so hard" that I've seen cropping up, in the same vein as mhoye's Mastodon thread and Iris Meredith's "The problem is culture".
Dang, I want to find this article more relatable than I do. Most software I have dev experience with doesn't have the problem of relying on automated tests too much, but the exact opposite.
And while I very much write tests for the dopamine high and false sense of security green checkmarks provide, I still prefer that to the real sense of un-security of not having tests.