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“here's a failing test—do whatever you can to fix it”

Bad idea. It can modify the code that the test passes but everything else is now broken.



I've heard this said a lot but never had this problem. Claude has been decent at debugging tests since 4.0 in my experience (and much better since 4.5)




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