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How to safely build trust in AI generated code (www.thequalityduck.co.uk)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
coding-challenges
Flooding the Zone, or Why Cheap Output Isn’t Free (testpappy.wordpress.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
unproductivity
One Second (angryweasel.substack.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
leadership
In five years, everyone will be a product manager (gojko.net)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
product-management
Make AI Boring Again (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
AI and the Declining Cost of Trying (www.kenst.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (www.tomshardware.com)
25 Jun
Simon Tomes
ai
ai-risks
I've spent 30 years in recruitment - this is how to get a job (www.bbc.co.uk)
25 Jun
Simon Tomes
recruitment
hiring
The logical destination of LLMs (bell.bz)
25 Jun
Simon Tomes
llms
ai-scepticism
Rebalancing Software Defect Datasets via Mutation: Performance Insights From Prediction Models Based on Software Measures (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
24 Jun
Rosie Sherry
mutation
bugs
Testing is Beautiful (qualityremarks.com)
24 Jun
Rosie Sherry
software-testing
When AI Hallucinates Its Own Hallucinations (testerstories.com)
24 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
hallucination
The Limitless Applications of AI (hackernoon.com)
24 Jun
Simon Tomes
ai
future-of-ai
First time meets are far from neat (simontomes.com)
23 Jun
Simon Tomes
meetups
conferences
The bug that finally convinced me I’d never be able to find all the bugs (wonderproxy.com)
23 Jun
Ady Stokes
bug-stories
How did leaving my phone at home inspire my first LinkedIn post on QE? (www.linkedin.com)
23 Jun
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
value
Quality Engineering in the Agentic Age: Build, Test, Orchestrate – Dragan Spiridonov | Craft 2026 (youtu.be)
23 Jun
Dragan Spiridonov
ai-quality-engineering
qe
Book Review: Software Testing with Generative AI (testengineeringnotes.com)
23 Jun
Oleksandr Romanov
ai
book-review
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
23 Jun
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
meta
engineering-management
Building an AI-Powered Open Source Contribution Assistant with n8n (dev.to)
22 Jun
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
open-source
selenium
AI-Powered Quality Engineering with Cursor with a special discount code - ADY50 (www.eventbrite.co.uk)
22 Jun
Ady Stokes
ai
quality-engineering
How do shoelaces link to risk? (www.linkedin.com)
22 Jun
Deborah Reid
risk
quality-engineering
Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds (arstechnica.com)
21 Jun
Rosie Sherry
hacks-in-the-wild
apple
Assured Integrity for AI-Based Software (assuredintegrity.ai.cornell.edu)
21 Jun
Rosie Sherry
security
ai
Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online (www.404media.co)
21 Jun
Rosie Sherry
security
hacks-in-the-wild
Mystery Bread (theproductmindedqa.com)
21 Jun
Susanne Abdelrahman
quality-engineering
ai
Join AI Chapter in MoTaverse for FREE (testingtitbits.com)
21 Jun
Rahul Parwal
ai-chapter
motaverse
Lovable vibe coding security crisis exposed (thenextweb.com)
18 Jun
Emily O'Connor
news
security
Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents (stackoverflow.blog)
17 Jun
Simon Tomes
ai-agents
stack-overflow
What it feels like to work with Mythos (www.oneusefulthing.org)
16 Jun
Rosie Sherry
mythos
claude
DORA AI Capabilities Model (dora.dev)
16 Jun
Simon Tomes
dora
dora-ai-capabilities-model
Trust Technical Writers, Not LLMs (www.literally.dev)
16 Jun
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
llm
llm-large-language-models
Book Review: Software Testing: A Craftsman's Approach (testengineeringnotes.com)
16 Jun
Oleksandr Romanov
software-testing
Testing = slow? Yeah, that's by design, you dipsh*t. (www.maaikebrinkhof.nl)
16 Jun
Louise Woodhams
testing
AI Readiness Radar: A self assessment tool for engineering teams (cakehurstryan.com)
15 Jun
Callum Akehurst-Ryan
ai
ai-quality-engineering
How does making lunch connect with note taking in QE? (www.linkedin.com)
15 Jun
Deborah Reid
note-taking
quality-engineering
A tester’s portfolio. Why even bother? (theroundaboutcafe.com)
14 Jun
Nataliia Burmei
portfolio
tester-s
New article on the Quality Forge blog - The Same Line in Every Room - Three weeks, two countries, a dozen rooms - and one observation that showed up in every single one. (forge-quality.dev)
14 Jun
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
harness-engineering
Building a Good Vertical Agent (x.com)
13 Jun
Phillipe Bojorquez
ai
agent
US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (www.anthropic.com)
13 Jun
Preeti Gupta
claude
anthropic
Weekly Challenge #2: I Built an Interview Preparation Agent Using MCP (ujjwalkumarsingh.substack.com)
12 Jun
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
interview
ai
Feature Chat Sheet: Conversation Starters (agiletester.ca)
11 Jun
Simon Tomes
story-shaping
story-refinement
The engineering manager's attention budget (newsletter.manager.dev)
10 Jun
Drew Pontikis
engineering-management
How Claude Code Actually thinks (www.linkedin.com)
09 Jun
Komal chowdhary
context-engineering
claude-code
Loop Engineering - From prompting agents to designing the systems that prompt them. (addyo.substack.com)
09 Jun
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
agentic
Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack (thehackernews.com)
09 Jun
Jesse Berkeley
security
supply-chain-attack
Book Review: Team Guide to Software Testability (testengineeringnotes.com)
09 Jun
Oleksandr Romanov
testability
book
How do exploratory testing and intuitive debugging and link to Father's Day? (www.linkedin.com)
08 Jun
Deborah Reid
exploratory-testing
debugging
Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts (arstechnica.com)
07 Jun
Rosie Sherry
meta
hacks-in-the-wild
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
07 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai-careers
ai-grief
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