I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on LinkedIn recently that make the same claim: speed of writing code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The real bottleneck was always thinking, choosing the right thing to build, understanding the problem. AI has just made that painfully obvious. I partly agree, but the framing is […]
Why the bottleneck was never just about thinking Read More »
Every time the topic of using AI for code reviews comes up, someone will eventually say that it is like letting the AI mark its own homework. It sounds clever. It also sounds responsible. Underneath it sits a familiar discomfort about oversight, trust, and professional judgement. As an analogy, it points attention away from the
Review as analysis, not authority, when working with AI Read More »
Sometimes I despair about the QA profession. Not because the work is hard, or because quality is complex. Both of those are true, but they always have been. What gets to me is where so much of our collective energy still goes. We have much bigger fish to fry. We have the tools to do
AI did not break testing Read More »
That day I rage quit my project It finally fell apart over a UI reskin. I had an application that mostly worked. It was not polished, but it was coherent, testable, and good enough to keep moving. When I asked the AI to reskin it using my brand colours, what I expected to be a
Stop vibe coding before you delete your repo Read More »
When I look at the current excitement around AI in testing, I cannot help feeling a sense of déjà vu. I felt the same thing when the first wave of no code and low code testing tools arrived. At the time, vendors promised that these tools would democratise testing, eliminate the need for technical skills,
A More Balanced AI Story Read More »
AI has been the background noise of every software conversation lately. Some people treat it as a superpower that will solve everything. Others point to low-quality AI slop online and see it as the end of original thought. I am somewhere in the middle. I use AI a lot, and I trust it for some
AI, curiosity, and a little procrastination Read More »
