Shifting Computer Interfaces
I gave Codex a browser and a Mailinator inbox, then asked it to join my website without detailed instructions. What it figured out shows how agents are becoming a new class of users for interfaces designed for people.
Shattered Illusions
Shattering the illusions around how things work
Latest posts
AI roulette: A quick win and a time sink
Same prompt, same agent, vastly different results. While building, one AI session nailed a complex feature in minutes while another spent two days running in circles. Here is what playing AI roulette taught me about non-determinism and the true cost of AI coding wins.
AI and the Declining Cost of Trying
AI agents can lower the cost of trying something. That doesn't automatically make it worth doing.
Split Your Commits: Work vs. Personal GitHub
A straightforward way to split commits between work and personal GitHub accounts.
Balancing skepticism and curiosity
The magnitude and speed at which AI is impacting the industry is creating a lot of noise. That's why I'm more focused on hands on experience reports.
Five for Friday - May 29, 2026
5 points worth sharing, May 29th edition. Lots of work related points about releases, code reviews, AI and writing down an assessment of your new job.
A small step forward
One of my early objectives at FreightPOP is to move the SDET team to write automated tests below the UI. I said as much in my  previous post : Build  an automation strategy that explicitly makes adding new tests below the UI a consideration and priority. Rebuilding the process
Optimizing the wrong part of the testing process
The optimization for outputting test cases rather than for outcomes (like product risk) is a problem.
Quick Wins for Using AI in Software Testing
If you don't code, how do you find wins in using AI to help you test? Start with chatbots and a few ideas from this article.
My AI Tooling Stack: The March 2026 Edition
The AI tools I use as of March 2026. I expect this stack will look different in six months and that's why I'm documenting this now.
A decade of TestingConferences.org
Celebrating a decade of the open source project: testingconferences.org.
Thoughts on Elon Musk (book) by Walter Isaacson
After finishing the Elon Musk book, there are a few ideas and themes that continue to resonate and are worth sharing. The first is the Algorithm.
Build vs Buy: API Docs
My first task as a developer advocate is to rebuild Mailinator's API docs. Do I build a new version or buy it? I build it!
Installing Ghost Locally on macOS with hot-reload of templates
This site is built on Ghost , an open-source, professional publishing platform, and is hosted through GhostPro. For a small annual fee, all of the infrastructure stuff is taken care of, yet I have the flexibility to edit the theme(s) and make them my own. Ghost is pretty great.
Foundation models and beyond
We expected A.G.I., but we got specialized agents instead!