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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.
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AMA Answer: What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?
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AMA Leadership Answer - Can you share a story about an early days leadership lightbulb moment?
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I've had a lot of lightbulb moments as I've been going through my leadership journey, most of them subtle learnings the built up over time. At the beginning, I thought the promotion was about me an...
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"And perhaps then the fancy sprinkles on the top are the occasional spikes used to explore new tech, languages, tools and techniques. 🤔 "
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"I likes the sound of that trifle model, Louise. It's great! Makes me wonder if exploratory testing could get its own layer baked (!?) in at all layers of the trifle. I kinda feel like it sometimes doesn't get enough of the attention it deserves, its in..."
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How Long Contexts Fail
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Question by Ben Dowen:What pitfalls or mistakes should I avoid while getting into Context Engineering? What newbie mistake can you help me miss?Response:As a newbie, one mistake that I made was try...
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AMA Answer: What pitfalls or mistakes should I avoid, while getting into Context Engineering? What newbie mistake can you help me miss?
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AMA Answer: What pitfalls or mistakes should I avoid, while getting into Context Engineering? What newbie mistake can you help me miss?
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AMA Answer: What pitfalls or mistakes should I avoid, while getting into Context Engineering? What newbie mistake can you help me miss?
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Question by Gary Hawkes: How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?Response:I use Github Copilot at work. My context engineering templates are very similar (and i...
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AMA Answer: How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?
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AMA Answer: How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?
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AMA Answer: How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?
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Question by Rosie Sherry: Â How can we practice testability within context engineering? Response:Fantastic question. Not many people talk about it (unfortunately).Good news: We at MoT are now ...
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AMA Answer: How can we practice testability within context engineering?
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AMA Answer: How can we practice testability within context engineering?
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AMA Answer: How can we practice testability within context engineering?
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Full Question by Rosie Sherry:Â
What are some good ways to ensure that non-developers get involved in context engineering? (It feels like there is a big focus on coding and shipping, yet apply...
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AMA Answer: What are some good ways to ensure that non-developers get involved in context engineering?
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AMA Answer: What are some good ways to ensure that non-developers get involved in context engineering?
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AMA Answer: What are some good ways to ensure that non-developers get involved in context engineering?
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"This is epic. Thanks for explaining, Rahul. 🤩"
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AI is stateless.It doesn't know or remember anything about you. The state has to be managed externally. You share your context with it via "prompts".For a normal AI chatbot (eg, ChatGPT), you...
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AMA Answer: What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?
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AMA Answer: What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?
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"Nice one, Richard. Thanks for reading. Glad to hear it was helpful.
If it sparks anything else let me know. Feel free to create a new Moment with reflections or more tips and advice."
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Member joined AI Chapter chapter
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AMA Answer: What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?
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AI is stateless.It doesn't know or remember anything about you. The state has to be managed externally. You share your context with it via "prompts".For a normal AI chatbot (eg, ChatGPT), you...
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Member joined AI Chapter chapter
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How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
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How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
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How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
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How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
Things that I've found helpful:
Establishing an agreement th...
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Start Exploratory Testing Today – Risks & Questions
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Start Exploratory Testing Today – Risks & Questions
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It was great catch up with Chris yesterday!!
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Great to see Chris again!!
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Great to see Chris again!!
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Great to see Chris again!!
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Member joined AI Chapter chapter
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AMA about Podcasting
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The time ran fast, and we had very little time for the 99-second talks.But we still managed to get one in by Sarthak Sharma!!Thanks for stepping up and making a 99-second talk in what was more like...
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Our 99-second speaker at MoT Manchester!
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Our 99-second speaker at MoT Manchester!
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Our 99-second speaker at MoT Manchester!
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