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		jrumbut on Jan 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as muc... The difference between tests and comments is that comments become stale silently.

hbrn on Feb 1, 2023 [–]

Only under assumption that you are writing perfect tests.

But if you are capable of writing perfect tests, why haven't you written perfect software in the first place?

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