There’s a familiar role on a team: tester, test engineer, software quality assurance — someone who tests an application professionally.
But it would be cool to have a professional user: not a professional tester, but someone who uses the product professionally. For example, if a company is building an ecommerce …
Sometimes it seems (or marketers assure us) that everything new is better than the old stuff.
I’m migrating a translation service that uses language models. The old version uses gpt-4.1, and the new one uses gpt-6-luna. Users complained that the new version was translating more slowly.
I thought: how …
For example: what I need is a configured, tested, reliable SaaS application. I don’t need ChatGPT for that. I need someone who will take responsibility for the result. Whether they use AI or not is a secondary question.
Delegation: hiring a person or a company to take responsibility for the …
I gave High Bar Journal my comments on “IT now vs. 20 years ago: how requirements for professionals have changed”
https://highbarjournal.media/post/cyfrova-transformaciya-vymogy-do-it-fahivciv
With AI, the need for knowledge doesn’t disappear — it changes.
I’ve noticed an interesting paradox.
On the one hand: when I suggest trying my own product, testinel.dev, people tell me: “Pfft, why do we need that? We just give the logs to AI and it fixes everything.”
On the …
What I like about tennis — you can’t play it on your phone over the internet, and you need at least one other person.
Think about it.
I trained my very own LLM for code review.
Called it LGTM-5.6.
It has just one token: LGTM.
For any input, it responds with
LGTM
On code review quality benchmarks, it’s no worse than 80% of senior developers. :)
I have proof that ChatGPT was writing letters for me way back in 2013. :)
Because what normal person would use em dashes — in letters.
AI wrote this post too. Good night. :)
To avoid wasting your time, let me give an important definition. Productivity is how much money you earn for the time you put in.
If you earn $1,000 in 160 hours without AI, let’s call that your baseline productivity: 1X.
If you earn $5,000 in 160 hours with …
I read documentation this week. And last week too. And next week I’ll be reading documentation too. I like reading documentation.
Why should I spend time writing to AI, waiting for “thinking longer for the better answer”™, when I can just Google the documentation I need, open it, and enjoy …