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		p1esk 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark “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.

SatvikBeri 3 months ago [–]

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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