Spending time optimising the Trifle lisp test suite to run in <1 second was well worth it. It makes coding more satisfying!
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I love how the CommonMark Spec has a test suite that's just a JSON array. It's really easy to test a library for compliance, and I've seen developers nerd-sniped into full compliance.
https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/spec.json
LLMs seem to handle dependency upgrades really well.
The task is well-specified, there's usually a build/test suite to check correctness of the modifications, and there's often a changelog they can consume too.
It's really satisfying to use a profiler for the first time on a project. I always find a big performance win with only a small code change.
It's never the code that I expected to be slow, however!