The Developer's Worst Enemy

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Selfloop · Autonomous visual testing

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Why it worked

The video resonates with developers by highlighting a universally disliked aspect of their job (QA testing) and offering a seemingly magical solution. The creator's personal experience and the promise of automating a tedious task create a strong hook.

Summary

A developer shares their frustration with the tediousness of QA testing and bug fixing, which they find to be the most boring part of their job. They have developed a system called Selfloop that automates bug detection and fixing, allowing them to focus on coding.

Structure

1Developer's biggest problem is boring QA testing
2Existing solutions like code generation and AI tools don't solve this
3The tediousness of manual testing and bug fixing
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#vibecoding #developer #coding #programming #ai

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Product placement

Codex and Claude: AI tools that help developers write and fix code. They are mentioned as tools that can be used to replace or assist with testing. They ACT in the video by being mentioned as solutions to a problem. Removing them would change the proposed solution. Selfloop.io: A system that finds and fixes bugs in code. It ACTS in the video as the solution to the developer's problem. Removing it would change the video's conclusion.

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The Developer's Worst Enemy

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I'm a developer for ten years and I finally solved the biggest problem we've faced. Not code generation, not codex and cloud that. They're super amazingly changed my life. I never expected it but QA testing when you actually run the code and there's so many bugs to catch. That is the most boring part of being a developer cause you think of all these cool things, all these great ideas besides marketing your apps. Testing and making sure they're reliable is probably why a lot of us lose users. If we're working at a company or for our boss, catching our bugs or catching the bugs in junior developer's code. It's literally so freaking boring to do all of that. And yes continuous integration testing, unit testing, all that exists, but you have to write those tests and maintain those tests and remember those tests. And then get your junior freaking dev to run those tests or replace them with codex, whatever. The main point is I don't wanna do that. So I finally built a system that clicks through everything. It finds the actual bugs and reports it and auto fixes it by tagging codex and Claude. And then finally I review the actual code. This finally gives me a piece of mind that I'm coding well.