Olly Fairhall

Ooh. Got an LLM set up on my personal laptop to start learning about AI agents.

Nope.

“Your computer is too crap for this” 😅

Great show!

It’s fantastic isn’t it

Nice. Will check this out tomorrow (just to be awkward 😅). I’m quite a fan of Texas Sun.

YouTube video by Bassotronics Assumption Is The Mother Of All Fuckups!

This pops in my head at least every other day

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And then quality assurance as something that ought to be a constant throughout that every part of the process can have in common

I think the immediate things that come to my mind are glue work and all the additional tasks that get done to help tie everything together and move everything along that tend to go unseen.

Okay. This could sound pretentious but I think I’d like to hear QA spoken of as a unifier within the SDLC. Both in terms of what people in QA roles do and what quality assurance does.

100% agreed and tbh I wasn’t fully awake when I read/responded to your first post so I might have committed to the risk point a bit too readily 😅 Still important though.

I’m going to have a think on it and do a proper response to your initial question over lunch

To be vague, all sorts of risk. What’s the risk of change in terms of bugs and their severity. Risk of impact on other areas of system. Risk of negatively affecting customers. Risk of poor implementation (when doing the deployment/implementation and after it’s done). bad UX. known bugs. All sorts 😅

Kind of in line with yours, mine would be risk.

As I get older the phrase “So and so was fucked” is increasingly more likely to mean something bad. Not that they were just wasted. I need to start waiting see what the story is about before laughing.

I actually started to write out my first QA blog last night and damn it felt good to write something again. It’s been a while! Looking forward to getting something out there

I met my wife 9 years ago. Going for a nice romantic date tonight to watch a zombie film #28YearsLater

Unfortunately, it seems that we’ve put a seemingly competent Conservative in power

Random Friday thought: Part of testing is about identifying the situations that aren’t ideal and how our software handles them. I guess you could say it’s injecting a bit of the real world into the SDLC #softwareTesting #quality

I did a thing in Lego

Fantastic music for a nighttime walk

“Principles over process”. I’ll figure out how to say what I mean by that at some point but it sounds nice for now.

My wife had a similar experience and I couldn’t drive at the time. The relief she felt when got it back was immense. It’s massively life-changing

LK (Carol Carolina Bela) DJ Marky, XRS, Stamina MC · In Rotation · Song · 2004

The good weather dictates that this get played

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I can finally recommend using AI for something 😂🎉

I’m taking the time to upskill again and am finally finding AI useful. It’s really helped me a lot with getting through technical learning. From understanding error messages and finding selectors to figuring out issues with installations on my computer and guiding me through sorting them out

Completely with you. This government is now no better than the last in my eyes. How is discriminating against and vilifying disabled people while pushing them into poverty going to help?

Sacrificing everyone to protect the very wealthy is going to ruin us.

Great bow tie!

There’s an Ask Me Anything with the CEO this afternoon. Telling myself I probably shouldn’t ask what he thinks about the pedestrianisation of Norwich Cory Centre.

I’m slowly starting to remove google from my life as much as possible. Think it will take a while but feels like the right move

Did some networking today for the first time since before covid and I forgot how good it is. Definitely going to be doing more of it.