Paul Maxwell-Walters

British-Aussie #software #dev & #tester, living in #Sydney. Thoughts & rants about #testing, #tech, #life. Steering Committee member at @sydneytesters.

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@michael_timbs @DamiDina If you have Anduril on the list then I'd recommend my former employer Droneshield as well.

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@_LostReaver @aakashgupta Yep. He was arguably the lead in Mortal Kombat 2 as well

[Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants]

Personal news. I am not joining Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will take us to new levels of expense for token usage. I am very excited to be sitting in a cafe in Sydney, Australia, and eating a bowl of chips

Congrats & best wishes to @karpathy BTW

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

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I have already seen podcast interviews with recruiters and numerous job ads for QAs & devs where commercial experience of AI tools and/or mature gen/agentic AI software engineering processes are stated as prerequisites.

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FWIW some thoughts I had about the direction of QA and Gen AI in SE.

1) We may see a bifurcation of testing roles to those that cover (more or less) traditional testing of software (but with automation and AI tools)...

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b) Testers and devs working in companies that ban AI tools or don't include AI products. They could end up being stuck at their employers or (if laid off) unfairly labelled "unemployable"....

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@Laura38123422 @fesshole My degree is Master of Phys (MPhys), which is just a four year undergraduate degree without a dissertation. It's common in the sciences.

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This is why you need good testers 👍🤣

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

On a software project, I used dummy text as a placeholder to be replaced later with actual descriptive error messages. Predictably, not all instances were fixed before release, and bemused corporate clients reported "Error: There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen".

[Jérôme_Keinborg @jeromekeinborg]

On a pas de processeur souverain, mais on a des chips 😉

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@KachnickaEnt @grok @NygaardHolger @IAPonomarenko It was. You can see it here https://t.co/oPQuv7VQMb

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@connordavis_ai You missed out the wonderful and easy to use PydanticAI

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@l19hty @fesshole Temple Bar is populated solely by tourists and cashed up tech and finance workers

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@Kiri11_Shi The ones I have used are Langchain/Langgraph and LlamaIndex

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Re-reading a classic.

The photo doesn’t do justice to this 900-page book that is heavier than any other book I own

Cannot recall reading a similarly extensive book about software development

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@MFStopforth @kieran_shaker So like normal Western irreligious countries then....

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@jon_stokes Don't listen to em. Lots of over 40s travellers around. Many proudly carrying backpacks.

[Scott Phillips @TMFScottP]

A reminder that this is Antony Green's last election in front of the camera.

Thank you, Antony.

#auspol #australiavotes

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