Nikola Ristic

📌 Founder of Testify
⚙️ Business Development Director
💡 Sharing insights on Tech, Business & Quality Engineering
🇨🇭 Based in Switzerland

[Tesla @Tesla]

Real life, baby

[Nikola Ristic @TheRealTestify]

Interesting article from the Chief Scientist at OpenAI

[Jakub Pachocki @merettm]

I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands.

An Alien Mind: https://t.co/FeIfWNe0UE

[Jakub Pachocki @merettm]

I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands.

An Alien Mind: https://t.co/FeIfWNe0UE

[Nikola Ristic @TheRealTestify]

@LinusEkenstam In the end, it’s the only thing that really matters. Everything else is just a nice addition.

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@Jayyanginspires Agree.
I actually wrote an article about this on my profile.
If you want to stand out in the hiring process, building and showcasing your personal brand can be a huge advantage.

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@gauraavvii An existing professional network.
Start building relationships and talking to people in the industry before you even have a company.

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“Zurich is becoming Europe's robotics capital”

That are not my words, they belong to Declan Shine from the ETH Robotics Club.
And the numbers from the Swiss Deep Tech Report back him up:

→ 45+ VC-backed robotics startups in Switzerland
→ $1.1B raised since 2020, growth of 470% in five years
→ $419M in 2025 alone, the strongest year on record
→ $3.8B combined enterprise value
→ Switzerland produces 3.5x more VC-backed robotics startups per capita than the US, 5x more than the UK, 6x more than Germany
→ Robotics jumped from 5% to 9% of all newly founded Swiss deep tech companies, now the 4th largest segment

Here are some current companies that exist just within a few kilometres:

ANYbotics
mimic
Flexion Robotics
Gravis Robotics
Hexagon Robotics
Ascento
RIVR
Loki Robotics
Tethys
Robotics
Duatic
Embotech
Sevensense Robotics
BOTA System
FORGIS
Disney Research
Nautica Technologies
Verity
Wingtra
Voliro
RAI Institute.
…and many more

One thing that I also noticed: a lot of them are currently looking for test engineers.
The current step is bringing the robots out of the lab and into real world environments. And that's where good technical test engineers become necessary

Source: Swiss Deep Tech Report 2026

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@pollenrobotics Genuinely have no use for one...but I still want one.

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Now this is worth the AI hype

[Charly Wargnier ♨️ @DataChaz]

Best use of AI I've seen this year

[Charly Wargnier ♨️ @DataChaz]

Best use of AI I've seen this year

[Nikola Ristic @TheRealTestify]

Did you ever buy a product before reading any reviews?
Neither did I…

We watch a twenty minute video from someone who has used the phone for two weeks.
We click on the one star reviews before booking a hotel, because we want to know what happened.
We ask a friend who already owns the software, because their experience counts for more than any ad.

We are looking for someone who used it and understands its strengths and its weaknesses.
And we do all of that before spending a single dime.

This is what test engineers do in a professional environment on a daily basis.
Gathering information about a product or a system and assessing the risks and the current quality.

In our private life we would not buy anything without that information.
Yet in software development it is sometimes treated differently.

Testing is seen as a quick check against the defined requirements rather than a real analysis of the product/system. A step that can be done at the end of the development cycle, or sometimes even be skipped. Only to find out after the release that the customers did the testing themselves and are not satisfied with the product.

So the next time your leadership team asks if we really need more testers and QA engineers, just tell them:

Every product gets reviewed eventually.
We only get to decide whether that happens before release or after.

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Benchmarks nowadays are literally made up by the very companies building the models. Obviously they'll beat them every time.

It's like defining a problem AI can't solve. That instantly becomes the thing every AI company optimizes for, just to show the world how good their model has become.

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@AlexHormozi Or in short: imagine the life you could have without all that worries.

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"You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

That's a sentence I've heard quite often.
Yet there is a little addition that most people tend to forget:

Those five people shouldn't all agree with you.

Yes, you need people who believe in you.
Who share the same mindset.
But agreement? That's optional.

One of the most underrated skills today is learning to work well with people you disagree with.

And I am not talking about the ones who shout and fight all day. I mean the people who have a different opinion than you and therefore want to challenge yours.

A lot of problems don't have an obvious answer.
It could be solution A.
It could be solution B.
Only a healthy debate can solve these challenges and find the best solution.

Next time someone won't just agree with you, don't get annoyed. Get curious.
It's the only way to turn a good idea into a great one.

[Nikola Ristic @TheRealTestify]

Maybe I’ll be wrong, but right now @demishassabis is the only person I trust to lead the development of AGI.

He consistently comes across as someone who puts humanity first and wants to build AGI as safely and responsibly as possible.

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A lot of people said we'd lose our jobs in 12 to 18 months.

That was about 12 to 18 months ago.

Meanwhile companies are still hiring and talented people still can't get an interview.
Here's what actually changed, and what to do about it. 👇 https://t.co/fIH9D4gbBt

[adiba @780613]

just unserious

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@frostlush I have never seen a more disrespectful team or a poorer loser than Argentina.

Spain winning this final was a victory for football itself.

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Thank you, Spain. 🇪🇸
I’ve never wanted a team to win the World Cup more than this one.

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@hthieblot Zelda, Ocarina of Time