Developers Delete Unit Test Lines with AI Shift
Sherwood@shcallaway13hwindow.__xClientTextFormatters?.run("_R_5uaar65j5cd336_", "formatRelativePastTimestamp", {"timestamp":1790978367000,"lang":"en","nowLabel":"Now"});We deleted 800k lines of unit tests from the @sazabi monorepo earlier this week. Three hypotheses: 1- Unit tests "lock-in" slop code by making it hard to change or remove 2- Unit tests slow down dev cycles by making your agent do more work locally and by increasing CI times Show more227552.2K260K
- ▪Sherwood@shcallaway13hwindow.__xClientTextFormatters?.run("_R_5uaar65j5cd336_", "formatRelativePastTimestamp", {"timestamp":1790978367000,"lang":"en","nowLabel":"Now"});We deleted 800k lines of unit tests from the @sazabi monorepo earlier t
- ▪Three hypotheses: 1- Unit tests "lock-in" slop code by making it hard to change or remove 2- Unit tests slow down dev cycles by making your agent do more work locally and by increasing CI times Show more227552.2K260K
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| Original publisher | X (formerly Twitter) |
| Canonical URL | https://x.com/i/trending/2106211685782483337 |
| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:12:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-03T11:18:12.614Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-03T11:18:12.614Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Ep94Bj7C07cU · 1 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Sherwood@shcallaway13hwindow.__xClientTextFormatters?.run("_R_5uaar65j5cd336_", "formatRelativePastTimestamp", {"timestamp":1790978367000,"lang":"en","nowLabel":"Now"});We deleted 800k lines of unit tests from the @sazabi monorepo earlier this week. Three hypotheses: 1- Unit tests "lock-in" slop code by making it hard to change or remove 2- Unit tests slow down dev cycles by making your agent do more work locally and by increasing CI times Show more227552.2K260K
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