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This kind of thinking is sadly lost on many. I have seen copious amounts of nonsensical tests slapped full of hard-wired mocks and any change in the functionality would break hundreds of tests. In such a scenario an LLM might be the bandaid many are looking for. Then again, the value of such tests is questionable.

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My best example of that was a test that was asserting that a monitoring metric changes in some way with a comment expressing doubt whether the asserted values are correct (but whoever wrote it still wrote the test that enshrined the behaviour that they themselves doubted).

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