{
  "id": 15087168,
  "title": "Do you let LLMs write both your tests and your code?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/do-you-let-llms-write-both-your-tests-and-your-code",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-16T23:53:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://lobste.rs/s/miwcai/do_you_let_llms_write_both_your_tests_your"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I'm curious what stance others have taken? Or what they've experienced with this? I'm toying with adding a rule to our values.md that the LLM can only significantly generate one or the other. I'm reviewing a merge request at the moment where it's clear the LLM mostly did both, and they're highly tautological. And I can see how it over engineered the code, just to be able to write more tests…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}