When a Junior Dev Wants AI to “Just Make the Tests Pass”
Practice coaching someone away from using AI to game the suite instead of understanding the failing contract.
Ravi R Junior Engineer Coaching moment A teammate wants the branch green quickly and sees the model as a way to remove the friction of understanding the failure. If you coach only with “don’t do that,” you miss the chance to teach how tests drive design. 7 failures all in snapshots 1 feature still poorly understood 0 clarity on the changed contract Framework Protect the contract Coach the person to understand what the test is asserting before the model touches the assertion itself. Bad shortcut Use AI to rewrite the expectation until the suite is green again. Green now means…
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