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AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) — Rick Manelius
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
10 links from the Observatory this week:
Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons — BBC
Anthropic says it has identified and disrupted attempts to use its AI model for "malicious activity" which could support the development of biological weapons.
Automation-First QA Is a Mindset Shift, Not a Framework — DV Engineering
Imagine cutting test creation time by 40–50%, accelerating release readiness and shipping with confidence before code even merges.
Quality People: Rahul Parwal on Filtering the Noise in Testing's AI Moment — Katalon
A conversation with Rahul Parwal, Test Specialist at ifm engineering and AI Chapter lead at Ministry of Testing, on why the loudest problem in software testing right now is not AI, it is noise.
Practices I Abandoned with Agents: An Ode to Test-Driven Development — Adam Tornhill
After 25 years with TDD, we are now parting ways. The incremental TDD steps were great for human cognition, but didn't survive the transition to agentic coding.
Five questions about AI—and my answers — Bill Gates
In a recent memo, I laid out some initial thoughts on things the world must do to maximize the good of AI and minimize the bad. This is a critical conversation to be having, and I’m going to keep engaging in it. You can read the full memo on Gates Notes now. https://gatesnot.es/3SqMTfK
W3C Accessibility Guidelines 3.0 working draft — w3.org
W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 will provide a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible to users with disabilities. Following these guidelines will address many of the needs of users with blindness, low vision and other vision impairments; deafness and hearing loss; limited movement and dexterity; speech disabilities; sensory disorders; cognitive and learning disabilities; and combinations of any of these disabilities. T
How to test file uploads — Hanisha Arora | WonderProxy
File uploads look like one of the easiest things to test. It’s as simple as selecting a file. Click upload. Check whether it appears. Move on. Simple right? Maybe not.
Recognizing Women Who Shape Testing Community — ACCELQ
On International Tester’s Day, we’re celebrating the women who are shaping the software testing industry and strengthening the testing community.
Matt Pocock's AI Agent Claude Skills — GitHub
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
Embracing the Code Review Bottleneck — Fred Hebert
Faced with an endless stream of AI-generated code reviews, our team made the counterintuitive choice to lean into the bottleneck rather than reduce it. Surprisingly, velocity held up, knowledge sharing improved, and we developed a collective system ownership that stuck.
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