Delete tests, skip code review: engineer argues frontier models break engineering baseline

sanderssays · x · 2026-10-01

Arguing that Opus 5.5 and Astra have reset his baseline, the author says unit tests now mostly restate code and waste tokens, and that PRs and code review have become ceremony — except for critical code like payments and auth. Let models write, test, and review each other instead.

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Delete tests, skip code review: engineer argues frontier models break engineering baseline

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