@TestingRants

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

 Sydney, Australia
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Joined October 2014
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Hannah
@anah_sahhAug 14
If everyone can build with AI, what becomes the new competitive advantage?
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Tom Adamczewski
@tmkadamczAug 7
Come work with me! We're hiring for multiple engineers on the evals team. Link at end of thread. Salary $125,000-$275,000 USD, fully remote, most of team is on European time zones.
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Karun Singh@karun1710Jul 23
We're hiring a Research Engineer at @Arsenal ⚽🔴⚪ to work directly with our Men's First Team! We're building state-of-the-art AI models for the football domain. This role will focus on building the application layer for our research to advance coaching and analysis workflows.
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I'm certain this will happen.... – at Sydney, New South Wales
Haider.
@haider1Jul 16
PREDICTION after kimi k3 successful launch and mogs opus 4.8, Dario Amodei is gonna write an essay explaining how open-weight Chinese AI threatens democracy, national security, and the future of humanity
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Google's new AI search likes to pretend it's living in the future. #AI #hallucination – at Sydney, New South Wales
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A company after my own heart. – at Sydney, New South Wales
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOroszJul 8
Talking w a larger startup whose product seems to not have degraded (vs many other products), even though they also use a AI for coding everywhere. Asked an infra lead: how? "Even before AI, we were paranoid about quality, and built this irrationally thorough E2E testing system"
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France, Argentina and dodgy VAR decisions. Also Kane, Bellingham, Rice and Guéhi currently being on yellow cards. – at Sydney, New South Wales
The Away Fans
@theawayfansJul 8
Be honest. What's the one thing stopping this England team from winning the World Cup? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Shawn Presser
@theshawwnJul 2
I’ll be actually-homeless soon (living out of my car) if I can’t land a job. Our house is being sold within two months if I don’t find work. I’ve been trying everywhere, but very few companies are answering. So please, email me or DM with literally anything involving computers, or ask a friend, or your business’s HR person. (I’d love to work with you.) I’ll do a good job, and I can learn and adapt to any working style you need. I was employee #2 at Carmack’s AI lab, Keen. I worked at Groq helping to design and implement their LPU chips. I made Books3, a dataset trained on by LLaMA and Claude. I’ve been programming for 25 years. Location: Lake Saint Louis MO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Python, PyTorch, JAX, C++, JS/TypeScript, Objective C, Swift, Rails, Linux, Lisp, and anything else you give me a week to learn. Résumé/CV: shawwn.net/docs/shawn-presse… Email: [email protected] I wanted to avoid the humiliation of begging, but nothing is working. I need money or else our 3yo daughter loses her birth home. I’ve been through dozens of interviews from the companies that do answer, but the market is bad right now. You can have me for a steal.
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Try being a Leeds United and England fan – at Sydney, New South Wales
Dr. C@chao_mboghoJul 1
People who watch club football AND international tournaments, you are the world's strongest soldiers. This can't be the all year round anxiety you go through. Lol.
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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
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathyMay 19
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 👍🤣
Fesshole🧻
@fessholeMay 5
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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Jérôme_Keinborg@jeromekeinborgApr 27
On a pas de processeur souverain, mais on a des chips 😉
Alex Xplore
@AlexXploreApr 27
🇫🇷 Brets (marque d’Altho) est devenue le leader des chips en France avec 26,7 % de parts de marché en valeur (incluant les MDD qu’elle produit), devançant ainsi les géants internationaux comme Lay’s (PepsiCo). 🥔 Née en 1995 en Bretagne d’une initiative agricole locale, cette entreprise familiale de 559 salariés mise sur une filière ultra-locale de pommes de terre (300 producteurs bretons à moins de 170 km). 🌟 Son succès repose sur l’innovation audacieuse : Brets propose des saveurs originales et insolites (huître, pastis, cacao-piment, etc.), avec 4 à 5 nouveautés par an. 🍫 En avril 2026, Brets a lancé une nouvelle gamme de chips de crêpes sucrées (beurre citron, caramel au beurre salé, fruits rouges…), une diversification dans le snacking sucré qui prolonge l’identité bretonne tout au long de la journée. 📈 Grâce à son ancrage breton, ses arômes naturels, sa transparence et son indépendance 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 à Pontivy, augmentant la capacité de production de 25 000 tonnes par an. 😉 Quelles sont vos "Brets" préférées ?
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Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz8 May 2025
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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Scott Phillips
@TMFScottP3 May 2025
A reminder that this is Antony Green's last election in front of the camera. Thank you, Antony. #auspol #australiavotes
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Testing Talks@TestingTalks28 Apr 2025
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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