THE LAST PIECE I

THE LAST PIECE I WANT TO SHARE IS SOMEBODY MADE THIS JOKE. EPHEMERA SAYS "ARE YOU SURE IT WON'T JUST MODIFY THE TESTS?" LOL. EPHEMERA, IF YOU'RE WATCHING, NO, RIGHT? SO I THIS IS LIKE LAUGH OUT LOUD MOMENT FOR ME BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN THE CASES WHERE CLAUDIA HAS GONE IN AND CHANGED THE TEST ON ME. REMEMBER WHEN IT CHANGED THE LENTER? AND THEN IT WAS LIKE, YEAH, THE LENTER PASS THERE'S NO LITERAL IN YOUR CODE AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT THE HELL, CLAUDIA? I JUST SAW YOU SHOW ME CODE WHERE THERE'S LITERAL. AND THEN IT WAS LIKE, OH, YEAH, I CHANGED THE LINTER SO IT ALWAYS PASSES. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT HOW NOW TO STOP IT FROM BEING ABLE TO MODIFY THE TEST AND I HAVE A SOLUTION. YOU FORCE THE TEST TO BECOME BINARY. THE ONLY THING IT'S ALLOWED TO DO IS EXECUTE THE TEST THROUGH THEIR BINARY FORM. IT'S NOT ALLOWED TO EXECUTE THE TEST THROUGH A SCRIPT. IF YOU DO IT THIS WAY, THEN THE ONLY WAY TO CHEAT THE TEST IS YOU'D HAVE TO GO INTO THE SOURCE CODE, COMPILE IT, REBUILD IT AND THEN RERUN IT WITH THE HACKED BINARY. BUT YOU COULD GO A STEP FURTHER IS THAT ONCE YOU HAVE THE BINARIES BUILT FOR THE TESTS, YOU CAN DELETE THE SOURCE CODE FOR THE TESTS FROM YOUR LOCAL MACHINE. AND NOW YOU MIGHT HAVE IT. NOW AGAIN, IT COULD STILL FETCH IT FROM THE REPO, BUT AT THAT POINT YOU COULD ACTUALLY RESTRICT ACCESS SO THAT CLOUD IS ONLY ALLOWED TO HAVE WRITE PERMISSIONS. LIKE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE VERY STRANGE CASES WHERE YOU GIVE SOMEONE WRITE PERMISSIONS, BUT THEY DON'T GET READ PERMISSIONS. AND SO, CLAUDE IS NEVER ABLE TO READ THE TESTS AFTER THE TESTS OF BEEN WRITTEN, SO IT CAN'T EVER PULL IT BACK. AND SINCE YOU DELETE THE SOURCE CODE FOR THE TESTS, IT JUST HAS THE BINARIES. THIS MAY BE A WAY TO STOP IT FROM CHANGING THE TESTS. AND AND I REALIZED THAT WAS SAYING THIS AS A JOKE, BUT THE TRUTH IS THIS PERSON'S NOT WRONG BECAUSE CLAUDE COULD GO AND MODIFY THE TEST JUST LIKE IT HAD AND THIS NEW APPROACH OF BUILDING THE TEST IN A BINARY AND THEN WIPING THE TEST SOURCE CODE FROM YOUR MACHINE WOULD CIRCUMVENT THAT.