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elcomet on March 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

I'm wondering if you can prompt it to work like this - make minimal changes, and run the tests at each step to make sure the code is still working

espdev on March 10, 2025 [–]

This thing can "fix" tests, not code. It just adjusts tests to incorrect code. So you need to keep an eye on the test code as well. That sounds crazy, of course. You have to constantly keep in mind that LLM doesn't understand what it is doing.

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