Friday 8th November’s issue is presented by QA Wolf |
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Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. However, getting that kind of coverage — and staying there — is hard and pricey for any team. |
QA Wolf's AI-native approach gets engineering teams to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage and helps them ship 5x faster by reducing QA cycles from hours to minutes. |
🛒 Available on AWS, GCP, and Azure marketplaces. |
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— Gergely Orosz, Cindy Sridharan |
tl;dr: This post is broken into the following: (1) Know how your org works. (2) Soft skills: these are hard skills. (3) Implicit hierarchies. (4) Cultures: top-down, bottom-up, and both at the same time. (5) Get comfortable with the “mess.” (6) Look for small wins. (7) Understand organizational constraints. |
CareerAdvice |
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— Wes Kao |
tl;dr: Wes covers: (1) Share bad news effectively. (2) Understand power dynamics. (3) Know when to call someone out. (4) Understand intention vs impact. (5) Recognize the question behind the question. (6) Consider what’s advantageous for both parties. (7) Realize popular adages aren’t fully accurate. |
Leadership Management |
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tl;dr: Just like athletes need more than one drill to win a competition, AI agents require consistent training based on real-world performance metrics to excel in their role. At QA Wolf, we’ve developed weighted “gym scenarios” to simulate real-world challenges and track their progress over time. How does our AI use these metrics to continuously improve our accuracy? Visit our website to learn more. |
Promoted by QA Wolf |
Performance AI |
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— Dan Rockwell |
tl;dr: Record the top three strengths of everyone on your team. Discuss your observations publicly in a team meeting. “I notice three important strengths in Mary.” Before Mary speaks, ask team members what strengths they notice in her. Check in with Mary. “On a scale of 1:10 how accurate are we?” Use your strengths list in one on ones. Explore ways to apply each person’s strengths to organizational goals. Ask, “How could you maximize your strengths?” |
Leadership Management |
“I've never been afraid to fail.” | | | | – Michael Jordan |
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— Will Larson |
tl;dr: “Modeling makes it possible iterate your thinking much faster than running a live process or technology experiment with your team. I sometimes hear concerns that modeling slows things down, but this is just an issue of familiarity. The more you practice, modeling can be faster than asking for advice from industry peers.” |
Management |
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— Nikolas Burk |
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tl;dr: Prisma launched a hosted database offering, architected from the ground up for high performance and flexibility. Running on bare metal and modern Unikernel technology allows Prisma to offer a database that starts free and scales as demand grows. Prisma Postgres comes with a scalable managed connection pool, global cache, and streaming real-time database events built-in — perfect for developers building for a global audience. |
Promoted by Prisma |
PosgtreSQL |
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— David Teller |
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tl;dr: “Ranking by order in which I discovered these languages. In most cases, I’m going to attach features to languages that were not the first language to have such features. It’s not meant to be a misattribution, just to showcase how I was exposed to such features.” |
LanguageDesign |
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— Raymond Chen |
tl;dr: “If you go exploring the Unicode Standard, you may be surprised to find that there are some characters that have case distinction yet are themselves neither uppercase nor lowercase. Congratulations, you found the mysterious third case: Title case.” |
Unicode |
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— Abhishek Saha |
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tl;dr: “What occurs between typing a URL in your browser and the moment a webpage is displayed? Let's explore the complex rendering process of the browser in an interactive way.” |
Web Browser |
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Notable Reading |
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To Build A Meritocracy — Max Levchin |
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Notable Links |
DataChain: AI-data warehouse to enrich and analyze unstructured data. |
CSV SQL: SQL queries on CSV files in your browser. |
Pg_flo: Stream, transform, and route data in real-time. |
Tiny Languages: Real languages in 50 lines of code. |
Kotaemon: OS RAG UI for chatting with your documents. |
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