"Give me an LLM and a test suite": Archimedes quote gets an AI rewrite
maxleiter · x · 2026-10-13
Developer maxleiter riffs on Archimedes: "Give me an LLM that's good enough and a test suite on which to place it, and I shall move the world." He adds that while LLMs can generate your tests and data, he couldn't make that fit as well as writing them himself.
The quip captures a practical idea in AI coding: constrain model output with a reliable test suite to amplify its capabilities — as long as the tests themselves are solid.
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