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Expand Up @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ and who knows what it'll be able to do in a few years or even months' time.
What we do know is that right now,
AI is both insanely impressive and incredibly unreliable.

Beyond being able to understand and respond to prompts in normal human language--
Beyond being able to understand and respond to prompts in normal human language --
it's easy to forget how absolutely extraordinary that is; literally science-fiction
a few years ago--AI tools can generate working code, they can generate tests,
they can help us to break down requirements, brainstorm solutions,
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=== Mitigations for AI's Shortcomings Sure Look A Lot Like TDD

If you read the advice, even from AI companies themselves,
about the best way to work with AI, you'll find date that it
about the best way to work with AI, you'll find that it
performs best when working in small, well-defined contexts,
with frequent checks for correctness.
When taking on larger tasks, the advice is to break them down into smaller,
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