In recent times, the LLMs and Agentic AI platforms have got better in pretending they are not hallucinating and making the engineers believe it. Mark these words of me! I am confident when I say this and my hallucination score is 0.14.

What most of the software engineers who are building or/and using the Agentic AI, SLM and LLMs do not notice is, The engineers themselves are hallucinating for first.

Check your sprint history to know what is remembered about you.

You will be remembered for how trustful you are, how you spoke, responded, assisted, and how you solved the problems together with the people of your teams and organization; not for what and how you delivered. It is forgotten in the next 3rd sprint cycle.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫? testinggarage.blogspot.com/2… #blog #leadership #communication #listening #mentoring #softwareEngineering #manager #engineeringManager

Look at how the STeP-IN summits have travelled in the last two decades. It has brought all of us to junction of Careers in Software Testing to Autonomous Testing discussions at the 23rd summit. See you in the 23rd STeP-IN Summit. It is easy to spot me!

Do you see the themes 𝙲̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚜̲ 𝚒̲𝚗̲ 𝚂̲𝚘̲𝚏̲𝚝̲𝚠̲𝚊̲𝚛̲𝚎̲ 𝚃̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚗̲𝚐̲ 𝐭𝐨 𝙰̲𝚞̲𝚝̲𝚘̲𝚗̲𝚘̲𝚖̲𝚘̲𝚞̲𝚜̲ 𝚃̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚗̲𝚐̲ in the two decades? Look at how the STeP-IN summits have travelled in the last two decades.

The 23𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐓𝐞𝐏-𝐈𝐍 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 2026 is happening on 10th September 2026 with a theme -- 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐈: 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

The 3𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐓𝐞𝐏-𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 2006, people came to the summit which had the theme -- 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

"23𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐓𝐞𝐏-𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 – 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝚝̲𝚘̲ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠" testinggarage.blogspot.com/2… @stepin_forum #stepinSummit2026 #softwareTesting #ai #agenticAI #automation

If it can interpret and say I'm not yet ready to handle these sets of inputs and its parameters, that is the meaningful start of accuracy scale to me.

I am working on ML models which are trained for specific tasks. Here, I work on accuracy. The accuracy I see is, "can the model interpret what it is working on for first?".

What industry expects is not the craftsmanship; the expectation is delivery. The practicing engineer knows to balance between these two, and practices by giving for what they are being paid.

"Restructuring and Orchestrating Myself and Tests with AI and Agents" testinggarage.blogspot.com/2… #stepInSummit2026

My theme proposal is not selected, but I congratulate the person whose proposal is chosen. See you at STeP-IN 2026! #stepInSummit2026

STeP-IN 2026: My Proposal for the Conference Theme "Restructuring and Orchestrating Myself and Tests with AI and Agents" @stepin_forum #stepInSummit

For an engineer, using AI and Agents is about efficient productivity and personal upskilling.  For an engineering leader it is about the velocity and displacement in business.   The same AI and Agents but the two different expectations and interpretations! #stepInSummit2026

I submitted a theme proposal for the STeP-IN Summit 2026. Below is the theme I proposed, along with the abstract explaining why I believe it is the need of the hour. "Restructuring and Orchestrating Myself and Tests with AI and Agents" @stepin_forum #stepinSummit2026

My TribeQonf 2026 Experience: Key Takeaways from a Software Testing Conference testinggarage.blogspot.com/2… #blog #tribeQonf2026 #tribeQonf #theTestTribe 4/4

5. If you are an engineer what did you deprecate in your last work, and why? Why deprecate at all? What happens if it is not deprecated? 3/n #tribeQonf #tribeQonf2026 #theTestTribe