Podcast Episodes

Stephen Platten, The Stoic Tester, joins Rosie to unpack how Stoicism, critical thinking, and spotting logical fallacies help testers navigate AI slop and governance gaps.

Principal Developer Advocate Adriana Vilela joins Rosie Sherry to explore tech careers, observability, OpenTelemetry, AI slop in open source, and why quality is still a very human job.

Principal engineer Abby Bangser explains how platform engineering shifts quality feedback into the infrastructure layer. And why that's a massive opportunity for quality engineers.

Adam Davis explains why observability, not prompt engineering, is the real challenge in AI-assisted projects, using his phone-display art project Pixelmesh as a live test bed.

Seventeen years in quality, rejections, then two offers. We did that.

SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner on the quality gap created by agentic coding, why intent validation is quality's next big role, and what BearQ is trying to do about it.

Rahul Parwal and Rosie Sherry discuss how quality professionals can navigate AI adoption, avoid the noise, and find where human skill still matters most.

Amy Phillips on what fifteen years in tech taught her about quality, ownership, and why removing things is just as important as building them.

Tristan Lombard joins Rosie Sherry to talk about one of the most pressing questions in tech right now: what do you do when the traditional career path stops working for you?

WonderProxy founder Paul Reinheimer on building slowly, refusing bad-fit customers, and why twenty years in still feels like a work in progress.

A squiggly conversation about tech careers, authentication security, agentic AI risks, and the excitement and woes of a fast changing world.