Bill Rudow

Test Automation Engineer client/server/web/mobile, Software Quality Assurance, Software Security,Test Automation, Linux/Android/Win/Java/Python/.Net/ JavaScript

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Have been generating test plans now for about 3 months using AI. Results are surprisingly good but always seem to need significant hand alterations. Still AI saves me time. Have been using Rove in Jira and Copilot with GitHub plugin.

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Just put a buy in for FSELX in retirement plan. My bet is that with SpaceX going public and increase spending on Colossus data centers semiconductor spending will remain stong.

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

So far Rocketlab and Intuitive Machines have been good buys for me. I have held LUNR for several years with some significant down periods

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Considering buying shares of SpaceX next month. Have no way to know if shares will be overpriced on 1st day they are available to the public

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Planning to sell my shares of CoreWeave CRWV and delay purchase of Nebius NBIS -- look like great companies but waiting for earnings to catch up with price

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Had to struggle with my 4-year-old Roomba i7 -- Lost all connectivity with app but after several reboots and resetting Wi-Fi it came back to life -- Hope the future for iRobot is good under the new owners

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Using Gemini for end of year tax strategy decisions -- Way more effective than than the best of the old fashioned search engines

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Taking time to experiment with the agentic dev mode of AntiGravity-- learning curve is worth it -- I feel I am glimpsing the future and my old work with Visual Studio and PyCharm maybe looked back upon like the era of punch cards

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Working with AntiGravity IDE to create demo web pages with time series predictions and graphs -- a few config and security issues on the local system had to be resolved

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

I recently got accustomed to vibe coding with ChatGPT, Gemini and Co-Pilot -- now making the transition to agentic code dev -- having good experience with AntiGravity IDE -- so far just simple, React and Python ML apps

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Have been working to upgrade Windows 10 systems to Windows 11. Some of my hardware is old and seems to not have TPM 2. Planning to use Rufus to prep install media and disable TPM an secure boot.

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

It may be that gen AI is as important as fire -- fire needs to be tended and one should keep an eye on it but it really works

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

I have been reading Cointelegraph regularly seeing more articles on security exploits and fewer on new applications and uses of crypto -- still long on Bitcoin

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

just learned today about KaliGPT and ShellGPT -- will experiment with these two learn of vulnerabilities on my projects

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Looking like 2025 will be the year that bitcoin stream goes mainstream -- gaining respect from large financial institutions and governments -- I am guessing that portfolio managers will start allocating 1% of holdings to bitcoin in 2025

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Wondering why by now I am not seeing logos at merchant checkouts for the Bitcoin Lightning Network -- I believe it is fairly reliable and good for small transaction payments -- may just have to give it some time

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Wondering if anyone has used chat GPT or other LLM for creating smart contracts in Solidity -- I last tried a smart contract experiment about a year ago and found the process to have a steep learning curve

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

The new Nvidia Jetson Orin at $249 sounds very cool -- I'm guessing they're not yet available -- clicked on the buy links on the Nvidia website but could not find actual units for shipment

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Red wired article about Microsoft and Bill Gates reaction to generative AI chat seen for first time -- he thought it was a neat parlor trick then wanted to get back to knowledge graph representation AI methods -- this too was my first reaction

[Bill Rudow @BillTheTester]

Learning to edit YouTube playlist -- found a tool to calculate playlist run time length -- will try plug-in to make copy of playlist and then edit copy