Exactly my experience, I know they vibe code features and that’s fine but it looks like they don’t do proper testing which is surprising to me because all you need bunch of cheap interns to some decent enough testing
No there is a wide gap between good and bad testers. Great testers are worth their weight in gold and delight in ruining programmer's days all day long.
IMO not a good place to skimp and a GREAT place to spend for talent.
> Great testers are worth their weight in gold and delight in ruining programmer's days all day long.
Site note: all the great testers I've know when my employers had separate QA departments all ended up becoming programmers, either by studying on the side or through in-house mentorship. By all second hand accounts they've become great programmers too.
So true. My first job was in QA. Involuntarily, because I applied for a dev role, but they only had an opening for QA. I took the job because of the shiny company name on my resume. Totally changed my perspective of quality and finding issues. Even though I liked the job, it has some negative vibes because you are always the guy bringing bad news / critizing others peoples work (more or less).
Also some developers couldn't react professionally to me finding bugs in their code. One dev team lead called me "person non grata" when coming over to their desk. I took it with pride.
Eventually I transitioned to develoment because I did not see any career path or me in QA (team lead positions were filled with people doing the job for 20+ years).
They bring down production because the version string was changed incorrectly to add an extra date. That would have been picked up in even the most basic testing since the app couldn't even start.
djtriptych|4 days ago
throwup238|4 days ago
Site note: all the great testers I've know when my employers had separate QA departments all ended up becoming programmers, either by studying on the side or through in-house mentorship. By all second hand accounts they've become great programmers too.
mkreis|2 days ago
cube00|4 days ago
They bring down production because the version string was changed incorrectly to add an extra date. That would have been picked up in even the most basic testing since the app couldn't even start.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532075
The fix (not even a PR or commit message to explain) https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/63eefe157ac...
No root cause analysis either https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16682#issue...
debarshri|4 days ago
jen20|4 days ago
abustamam|3 days ago
This is the bar we're at now.
otabdeveloper4|4 days ago
Sounds like a problem AI can easily solve!