Designing online systems so that groups of people are smarter than individuals is not easy. The first collaborative chess games weren't very strong. In Kasparov vs The World, organisers ensured there were several strong players and online discussions.
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That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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Test code is total: we require it to always terminate or it's a failure! It also typically has 100% line and branch coverage.
I feel way less nervous about refactoring tests, you can always just run them.