Simon Tomes | Activities
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Bug is very excited to be seeing many of you at MoTaCon.
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Bug is very excited to be seeing many of you at MoTaCon.
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Thank you for being as awesome as ever and for promoting my question about my book's chapter draft. Excellent ideas about posting a moment with feedback and thoughts. I very much appreciate you and all you do. Thanks
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Get Simon to 5,000 community stars
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Simon Tomes is an awesome person who works incredibly hard for the MoTaverse. He has supported me and helped improve my ideas for years. Whether it is a conversation, feedback on the Quality Engine...
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Great to see you in the chat during TWiQ.
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Gbadebo Bello representing Postman at MoTaCon25.
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Learn API testing and Postman with Gbadebo Bello
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Learn API testing and Postman with Gbadebo Bello
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Learn API testing and Postman with Gbadebo Bello
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Learn API testing and Postman with Gbadebo Bello
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Love to see Gbadebo Bello in action at MoTaCon
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Gbadebo Bello presenting for Postman
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Gbadebo Bello presenting for Postman
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Gbadebo Bello presenting for Postman
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Gbadebo Bello presenting for Postman
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Gbadebo Bello presenting for Postman
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Upskilling in AI at scale
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Upskilling in AI at scale
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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Something that has been bothering me for a while.When people talk about AI, new tools, and new ways, the concept of 'human in the loop' normally gets thrown in as a check box item. As a way of sayi...
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Is anyone else tired of human in the loop?
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Is anyone else tired of human in the loop?
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"Some related terms that have become popular: Orchestrator, Evaluator and Judge.
When humans orchestrate they have control and responsibility.
When humans evaluate they have criteria and context.
When humans judge they have authority and accountability..."
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"Nice one, Suzanne. Great to see you tested your talk in production.
You totally got this when it comes to the main stage at MoTaCon. The audience will be wishing you to succeed and will be very grateful for what you have to share."
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Last week The Netherlands chapter held a MoTaCon pre-party spoiler edition with me and Rene trying out our MoTaCon talks and Fieke as an extra bonus talk.Not only was it a fun and interesting MoT n...
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MoTaCon spoiler edition
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MoTaCon spoiler edition
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MoTaCon spoiler edition
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MoTaCon spoiler edition
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MoTaCon spoiler edition
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MoTaCon spoiler edition
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Guardrails & Evals: Keeping Your AI Skills Honest
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A free event by MoT AI Chapter
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Upskilling in AI at scale
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MoTacon lean coffee
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Lean coffee success
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Lean coffee success
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Lean coffee success
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Lean coffee success
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Lean coffee success
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More road reviews less code reviews
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More road reviews less code reviews
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I've been reviewing a draft essay from a friend and ex-colleague of mine. He's a super experienced senior software architect and he's written about how so much has changed since AI. It's a great re...
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Enjoy your Professional Membership. Thanks for upgrading and we'll see you around the MoTaverse soon.
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Crafting is increasingly my creative and therapeutic outlet, and I'm channelling my energy into Bug and MoTaverse crafts.I'm not sure how it would work out, but I have this idea of crafting all yea...
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My first bug bag
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My first bug bag
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My first bug bag
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My first bug bag
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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