Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests (Changelog News #96)

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Swizec’s article on not using AI to writes tests, LlamaFs is a self-organizing file system with Llama 3, a Pew Research analysis confirmed that the internet is full of broken links, Sam Rose built a spectacular interactive study of queueing strategies & Jordan Cutler shares a real-life experience of him writing clear/readable code… and it backfiring.

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1. What up, nerds? (00:00:00)

2. freeCodeCamp clip! (00:00:45)

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/open-source-is-changing-the-changelog-host-jerod-santo-on-how-to-keep-up-podcast-125/

3. Why you shouldn't use AI to write tests (00:01:49)

https://swizec.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-use-ai-to-write-your-tests/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. A self-organizing file system with llama 3 (00:03:30)

https://github.com/iyaja/llama-fs?utm_source=changelog-news

5. The internet is full of broken links (00:04:13)

https://sherwood.news/tech/the-internet-is-full-of-broken-links/?utm_source=changelog-news

6. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:05:09)

https://cronitor.io/homelab?utm_source=changelog-news

7. An interactive study of queueing strategies (00:06:06)

https://encore.dev/blog/queueing?utm_source=changelog-news

8. Clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write (00:07:02)

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst?utm_source=changelog-news

9. That's the news for now (00:08:19)