Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

British-Aussie #software #dev & #tester, living in #Sydney. Thoughts & rants about #testing, #tech, #life. Steering Committee member at @sydneytesters. testingrants.blogspot.com Sydney, Australia Joined October 2014

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

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@UTDMael Fabio Capello

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Shawn Presser @theshawwn

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I’ll be actually-homeless soon (living out of my car) if I can’t land a job. Our house is being sold within two months if I don’t find work. I’ve been trying everywhere, but very few companies are answering. So please, email me or DM with literally anything involving computers, or ask a friend, or your business’s HR person. (I’d love to work with you.) I’ll do a good job, and I can learn and adapt to any working style you need. I was employee #2 at Carmack’s AI lab, Keen. I worked at Groq helping to design and implement their LPU chips. I made Books3, a dataset trained on by LLaMA and Claude. I’ve been programming for 25 years. Location: Lake Saint Louis MO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Python, PyTorch, JAX, C++, JS/TypeScript, Objective C, Swift, Rails, Linux, Lisp, and anything else you give me a week to learn. Résumé/CV: shawwn.net/docs/shawn-pre… Email: [email protected] I wanted to avoid the humiliation of begging, but nothing is working. I need money or else our 3yo daughter loses her birth home. I’ve been through dozens of interviews from the companies that do answer, but the market is bad right now. You can have me for a steal.

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

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@tunde_Gabe @ovadizzle I don't know which game you were watching but England won 2-1

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

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Try being a Leeds United and England fan

Dr. C @chao_mbogho

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People who watch club football AND international tournaments, you are the world's strongest soldiers. This can't be the all year round anxiety you go through. Lol.

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

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@Ronieutd Emmanuel Petit

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@_onlyscott No Matt Busby, No Bill Shankly, No Brian Clough, No Fatih Terim, No Bob Paisley....

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@ButterBabe__ @Raytar Yep but it's also plays the readers for idiots.

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

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@lonniev @Zephyr_hg I agree with this. It is also worth treating what comes out of Big AI Tech CEO as being nothing more than attention-grabbing sales pitches, designed for the audience in front of them.

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

a month ago

@michael_timbs @damidina If you have Anduril on the list then I'd recommend my former employer Droneshield as well.

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@_LostReaver @aakashgupta Yep. He was arguably the lead in Mortal Kombat 2 as well

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

a month ago

Personal news. I am not joining Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will take us to new levels of expense for token usage. I am very excited to be sitting in a cafe in Sydney, Australia, and eating a bowl of chips Congrats & best wishes to @karpathy BTW

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

a month ago

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

a month ago

I have already seen podcast interviews with recruiters and numerous job ads for QAs & devs where commercial experience of AI tools and/or mature gen/agentic AI software engineering processes are stated as prerequisites.

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

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b) Testers and devs working in companies that ban AI tools or don't include AI products. They could end up being stuck at their employers or (if laid off) unfairly labelled "unemployable"....

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

a month ago

FWIW some thoughts I had about the direction of QA and Gen AI in SE. 1) We may see a bifurcation of testing roles to those that cover (more or less) traditional testing of software (but with automation and AI tools)...

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

2 months ago

@Laura38123422 @fesshole My degree is Master of Phys (MPhys), which is just a four year undergraduate degree without a dissertation. It's common in the sciences.

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Paul Maxwell-Walters @TestingRants

2 months ago

This is why you need good testers 👍🤣

Fesshole🧻 @fesshole

2 months ago

On a software project, I used dummy text as a placeholder to be replaced later with actual descriptive error messages. Predictably, not all instances were fixed before release, and bemused corporate clients reported "Error: There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen".

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Jérôme_Keinborg @jeromekeinborg

2 months ago

On a pas de processeur souverain, mais on a des chips 😉

Alex Xplore @AlexXplore

2 months ago

🇫🇷 Brets (marque d’Altho) est devenue le leader des chips en France avec 26,7 % de parts de marché en valeur (incluant les MDD qu’elle produit), devançant ainsi les géants internationaux comme Lay’s (PepsiCo). 🥔 Née en 1995 en Bretagne d’une initiative agricole locale, cette