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derdi 42 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of th...

How do you break a regression? A regression is breakage. Are you one of the people who use "regression" to mean "regression test"? Did Codex learn this from you? I hate it.

w4der 42 days ago [–]

Yeah, sorry, it was a codebase with _only_ regression tests dating to the 80s, so we called everything a "regression".

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