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I Built an LLM Filter That Prefers Silence Over Slop, and the Eval Harness That Keeps It Honest

I Built an LLM Filter That Prefers Silence Over Slop, and the Eval Harness That Keeps It Honest

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My Tests Required a Running Database. Interfaces Fixed That.

My Tests Required a Running Database. Interfaces Fixed That.

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Browser Automation Myths Teams Still Believe, and What to Compare Instead

Browser Automation Myths Teams Still Believe, and What to Compare Instead

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A Practical Note on Testing in Release Pipelines Without Slowing the Team Down

A Practical Note on Testing in Release Pipelines Without Slowing the Team Down

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English-Only Agent Evals Miss Real Failures

English-Only Agent Evals Miss Real Failures

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Almost Done: The Hidden Tradeoffs of Playwright E2E Testing in a Fast-Moving App

Almost Done: The Hidden Tradeoffs of Playwright E2E Testing in a Fast-Moving App

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LocalStack now needs an auth token: getting it into Testcontainers without a .env file

LocalStack now needs an auth token: getting it into Testcontainers without a .env file

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Manual Testing: How We Make Sure Software Works Correctly

Manual Testing: How We Make Sure Software Works Correctly

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I tested the 'deterministic agent loop' claims with four experiments. They all failed — including my own fix.

Formal code failing at the semantic layer

I tested the 'deterministic agent loop' claims with four experiments. They all failed — including my own fix.

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Test Isolation

Test Isolation

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I Spent $200 in Two Hours Watching a Coding Agent Guess

I Spent $200 in Two Hours Watching a Coding Agent Guess

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Your MCP Client Runs the Command Before It Trusts the Server

Your MCP Client Runs the Command Before It Trusts the Server

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Agent-readable API testing for Cursor and Windsurf: introducing API Workbench

Agent-readable API testing for Cursor and Windsurf: introducing API Workbench

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Why URL-Only API Mocks Break Down in Real Frontend Work

Why URL-Only API Mocks Break Down in Real Frontend Work

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I built a tool to diff video, image, audio, subtitles and text files — all in one place

I built a tool to diff video, image, audio, subtitles and text files — all in one place

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