British-Aussie #software #dev & #tester, living in #Sydney. Thoughts & rants about #testing, #tech, #life. Steering Committee member at @sydneytesters.

Joined October 2014
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Personal news. I am not joining Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will take us to new levels of expense for token usage. I am very excited to be sitting in a cafe in Sydney, Australia, and eating a bowl of chips Congrats & best wishes to @karpathy BTW
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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FWIW some thoughts I had about the direction of QA and Gen AI in SE. 1) We may see a bifurcation of testing roles to those that cover (more or less) traditional testing of software (but with automation and AI tools)...
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b) Testers and devs working in companies that ban AI tools or don't include AI products. They could end up being stuck at their employers or (if laid off) unfairly labelled "unemployable"....
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I have already seen podcast interviews with recruiters and numerous job ads for QAs & devs where commercial experience of AI tools and/or mature gen/agentic AI software engineering processes are stated as prerequisites.
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This is why you need good testers đŸ‘đŸ€Ł
On a software project, I used dummy text as a placeholder to be replaced later with actual descriptive error messages. Predictably, not all instances were fixed before release, and bemused corporate clients reported "Error: There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen".
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On a pas de processeur souverain, mais on a des chips 😉
đŸ‡«đŸ‡· Brets (marque d’Altho) est devenue le leader des chips en France avec 26,7 % de parts de marchĂ© en valeur (incluant les MDD qu’elle produit), devançant ainsi les gĂ©ants internationaux comme Lay’s (PepsiCo). đŸ„” NĂ©e en 1995 en Bretagne d’une initiative agricole locale, cette entreprise familiale de 559 salariĂ©s mise sur une filiĂšre ultra-locale de pommes de terre (300 producteurs bretons Ă  moins de 170 km). 🌟 Son succĂšs repose sur l’innovation audacieuse : Brets propose des saveurs originales et insolites (huĂźtre, pastis, cacao-piment, etc.), avec 4 Ă  5 nouveautĂ©s par an. đŸ« En avril 2026, Brets a lancĂ© une nouvelle gamme de chips de crĂȘpes sucrĂ©es (beurre citron, caramel au beurre salĂ©, fruits rouges
), une diversification dans le snacking sucrĂ© qui prolonge l’identitĂ© bretonne tout au long de la journĂ©e. 📈 GrĂące Ă  son ancrage breton, ses arĂŽmes naturels, sa transparence et son indĂ©pendance familiale, Brets a vu ses ventes bondir de plus de 80 % en trois ans, atteignant ses objectifs 2026 bien en avance. 🏭 Pour soutenir sa croissance, une nouvelle usine ultra-moderne ouvrira en avril 2026 Ă  Pontivy, augmentant la capacitĂ© de production de 25 000 tonnes par an. 😉 Quelles sont vos "Brets" prĂ©fĂ©rĂ©es ?
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Re-reading a classic. The photo doesn’t do justice to this 900-page book that is heavier than any other book I own Cannot recall reading a similarly extensive book about software development
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A reminder that this is Antony Green's last election in front of the camera. Thank you, Antony. #auspol #australiavotes
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We’re excited to welcome Sandeep Kumar as a speaker at Testing Talks Conference Sydney on Thursday 31st July 2025! For more details and to secure your tickets, please visit our website at testingtalks.com.au #TestingTalksConference
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Sandeep Kumar, Lead Quality Engineer at Gumtree Australia, kicks off Sydney Testers' first meetup of 2025, hosted by Gumtree, with his talk about their approach to Quality. #qa #testing #tech #Sydneytesters #meetup
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Not helpful but not wrong either.... đŸ€”
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Google AI is crushing it
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A cool Github repo collecting LLM papers, blogs, and projects, with a focus on OpenAI o1 and reasoning techniques.
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Being a senior developer is being able to fix the bug in 5 minutes But having the discipline to assign it to a team member knowing it’ll take them 4 hours
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Replying to @neda_sefati
In tight market soft skills matter more In open market technical skills matter more Right now Work on your soft skills.
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Just to show that the trendy new #Flux Image Gen #AI tool isn't perfect. Prompt - "A photorealistic image of a young woman standing by the infinity pool at the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark, with the skyline of Singapore Downtown behind her." What are 3 things wrong with the image?
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Sorry I made a mistake. There are two things I can see wrong with the image.
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The @cityjsconf Singapore Javascript conference is live and free on youtube if anyone is interested. youtube.com/live/2qXpF0GdI9U

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