Brian Gardner

For spiking on experiments I'll just let it run and see what happens. If I'm debugging something I actually prefer disabling the actions to just work through the issue before letting the agent do anything. Giving it a step by step plan seems the most effective at this point

AI Driven Mobile Testing - Blazing the Trail at Block - droidcon At Block, we have spent the past several months creating an LLM driven mobile testing framework, “Trailblaze”.

The video for my conference talk with @handstandsam.bsky.social is up on the DroidCon site! Check out how we're experimenting with AI-Driven testing at scale at Block and learn more about our new open source library Trailblaze
#Android #AndroidDev #AI #Testing
www.droidcon.com/2025/07/23/a...

GitHub - block/trailblaze: AI-driven mobile testing framework. AI-driven mobile testing framework. Contribute to block/trailblaze development by creating an account on GitHub.

Trailblaze got some new updates today! There's an official yaml spec defined in the trailblaze-yaml module. The examples will be updated by the end of this week.

There's also new memory tools available so the agent can remember screen state for later assertions.
github.com/block/trailb...

I love listening to a thunderstorm slowly roll in with the afternoon heat and humidity. Complete with a summer cicada symphony

Oh shoot the Bachelor in Paradise season starts tonight! Love some light trash tv

It’s always nice to have a side project to work on

There’s something odd about using an AI to build another AI agent. Not in the technical sense, just seems funny to use one tool to create another version of the same tool 🤖

Tasty turtle leg

Sounds like an interesting blog post topic!

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Ringing in the new year right with a nice dinner and even broke out some of our new china

Successfully prevented the fire alarm from going off

Making some smoked old fashioned cocktails for movie night

Sometimes you gotta go all out

Christmas Dinner 2: Layaway Leftovers

Christmas was a whirlwind as always. Many toys, treats, and good times. At Mimi’s this morning for Christmas number 2 before Christmas 3 this evening #SlightlySpoiled

Busy day baking Christmas cookies for Santa, then off to the Christmas pageant. Soon Santa’s elves will be constructing a lovely playset in the dark 🎅

Being Santa is hard. Especially when you have to return a heavy ass playset because your order couldn’t be cancelled. Oh well, all wrapped up and the kiddos are none the wiser. Ho ho ho 🎅

Fortnite sponsoring a college football playoff game is so bizarre. What’s next? The TikTok bowl?

Christmas cookies on a baking tray ready to go in the oven

It’s that Christmas cookie time of year!

Just had a small plastic toy puncture the bottom of my foot. There may be some house slippers on my Christmas list soon

The Jackets held the Dawgs to zero points at the half? Im loving it but this 12 team playoff has some weird juju going on

Nice! What projects do you have planned for it?

Closing out the weekend with a trip to the spa and baths at Aire, then off to La Guardia for our flight back home

Another busy day in NY! Dim Sum, then Moms for a momosa and milkshake, and now getting ready for The Outsiders

Louis Vuitton pop up shop on Fifth Avenue

Colorful decorations and escalators

Doing some shopping at Saks fifth Avenue and loving so the holiday decorations

Vacationing in NYC for the weekend with great friends

No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains Bad service in the subway? Our offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next

This is so darn cool blog.transitapp.com/go-undergrou...

I haven’t heard of it but it looks really cool! I’m curious how they’re getting the agent to handle the verification step