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AI wrote your tests and they all pass. Do they prove anything? Unit vs integration tests

A test the AI wrote by reading your code can only agree with your code, bugs included. What unit and integration tests each catch, why coverage misleads, and how a mutation score shows whether your tests would notice a bug, from Fowler, Google, Stryker and PIT.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 9 min

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AI wrote it, tsc caught it: what TypeScript strict mode finds in AI code, and what it misses

We planted five typical AI slips in a TypeScript file. Strict mode flagged all five in about a second; with strict off, three slipped through. Then a form sent the age as text and the type checker saw nothing. Here is where the compiler helps and where you need a schema.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 10 min

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“Vibe Coding” Has Become “Doomcoding”

Beginners know they're lost, and experts can read what the AI wrote. The people in trouble are in the middle: they can prompt an app into existence but can't read what came back. So they pull the lever again. Here's the loop, the evidence, and the way out.

Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 15 min