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.
reply> Great testers are worth their weight in gold and delight in ruining programmer's days all day long.
replySite 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.
> they don’t do proper testing
replyThey 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...
Thats not true. Even for testing things, you need to do thoroughly now because standards are high.
replyFrom where I'm viewing, the standards in software have never been lower.
reply> all you need bunch of cheap interns to some decent enough testing
replySounds like a problem AI can easily solve!