To every developer shipping features late into the night, every QA catching that one last bug, and every new Playwright learner stepping into automation — thank you. You’re the reason products stay usable, reliable, and stable.
May this season bring:
✅ fewer flaky tests and more consistent green runs
✅ code reviews that teach, not roast
✅ teams that value quality - not just speed
And enough quiet time to remember why building (and testing) software mattered to you in the first place.
Merry Christmas - and steady wins in the year ahead. 🎄✨
I’ve been in QA long enough to notice a pattern. When people say testing, they often mean finding bugs.
But that’s not how it is in real life. In my book "Navigating Testing and Quality Assurance" a.co/d/0fPHT3T, I wrote my own definition based on what I kept seeing in projects:
"As I see it, testing is more than just finding bugs, it is a process of improving product quality, ensuring compliance with requirements and regulations, and delivering a product that meets or exceeds user expectations."
That didn’t come from a textbook. That came from shipping software and seeing what actually matters.
Because the best testing work I’ve done wasn’t just logging defects, it was:
- stopping failures before they hit production
- surfacing risks early (before they become expensive surprises)
Ilya Sutskever, one of the people who proved that “just scale it” works in AI, now says the scaling era is over. Current models are insanely good on benchmarks but generalize far worse than humans, which hints we hit an architectural ceiling, not just a compute limit. His new $3B company, SSI, is betting that 5–20 years from now, human-like learners will come from new research ideas, not the biggest GPU cluster.
Need more vibe coding angry birds flying in the picture. Also AI should be inserted under aws, cloudflare, azure with all the outages in last two months.
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alexusadays
To every developer shipping features late into the night, every QA catching that one last bug, and every new Playwright learner stepping into automation — thank you. You’re the reason products stay usable, reliable, and stable.
May this season bring:
✅ fewer flaky tests and more consistent green runs
✅ code reviews that teach, not roast
✅ teams that value quality - not just speed
And enough quiet time to remember why building (and testing) software mattered to you in the first place.
Merry Christmas - and steady wins in the year ahead. 🎄✨
#Playwright #TestAutomation #SoftwareTesting #QualityEngineering #QA #Developers #Automation #EngineeringLife #MerryChristmas
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I’ve been in QA long enough to notice a pattern. When people say testing, they often mean finding bugs.
But that’s not how it is in real life. In my book "Navigating Testing and Quality Assurance" a.co/d/0fPHT3T, I wrote my own definition based on what I kept seeing in projects:
"As I see it, testing is more than just finding bugs, it is a process of improving product quality, ensuring compliance with requirements and regulations, and delivering a product that meets or exceeds user expectations."
That didn’t come from a textbook. That came from shipping software and seeing what actually matters.
Because the best testing work I’ve done wasn’t just logging defects, it was:
- stopping failures before they hit production
- surfacing risks early (before they become expensive surprises)
- confirming we’re meeting requirements + compliance constraints
- protecting user trust
Then recently I read "Taking Testing Seriously" a.co/d/3J7J47g and this line hit me:
"Testing is the process of evaluating a product by learning about it through experiencing, exploring, and experimenting with it."
And I was like… yep. That’s the missing piece.
My definition is the WHY.
That quote is the HOW.
Put them together and you get the full picture:
WHY: quality, compliance, user expectations, confidence
HOW: learn the product by exploring, experimenting, and experiencing it
That’s the mindset shift I wish more teams made:
Testing isn’t only about the "bug hunt".
Testing is risk-driven learning that helps teams ship quality products.
How do you define testing in one sentence?
#softwaretesting #qualityassurance #qa #testing
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I must say I enjoy this thumbnail a bit too much 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDh92...
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Ilya Sutskever, one of the people who proved that “just scale it” works in AI, now says the scaling era is over. Current models are insanely good on benchmarks but generalize far worse than humans, which hints we hit an architectural ceiling, not just a compute limit. His new $3B company, SSI, is betting that 5–20 years from now, human-like learners will come from new research ideas, not the biggest GPU cluster.
#AI #AGI #AIResearch #ScalingLaws #FutureOfAI #IlyaSutskever #SafeSuperintelligence
Source: www.implicator.ai/ilya-sutskever-declares-the-scal…
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Need more vibe coding angry birds flying in the picture. Also AI should be inserted under aws, cloudflare, azure with all the outages in last two months.
#ai #testing #qa
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AI reshapes support, but humans stay central—and organizations that ignore that reality will have to walk back their plans.
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AI is finally making a difference. We get a major outage on a weekly basis now 😂
#ai #outage #microsoft #amazon #qualityassurance
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My audiobook “Navigating Testing & Quality Assurance” is now available on Audible! Check it out 😊
www.audible.com/pd/B0FM4LT5JM?source_code=ASSORAP0…
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Flash sale on my new Udemy Playwright with Typescript course: www.udemy.com/course/playwright-automation-with-ty…
This will only last few days. So get it now :)
#alexusadays #playwright #qualityassurance
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I asked hashtag#ChatGPT to generate USA themed alphabet with image representing each letter, here are results:
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