To the first point, why use AI for end-to-end testing at all? The main app I work on has accessible buttons, menus, etc, that can all be found deterministically, why waste the money having AI try to figure it out and possibly lie about the results?
There is also Testing Library, which I’ve mostly seen and used for unit tests (vitest) and component tests (Storybook), that practically forces you into setting things up in an accessible way. The methods for finding elements are along the lines of “find by ARIA role” or “get by label” - in fact, querying the DOM with selectors is afaik either not a part of the library or very difficult to do because their focus is ensuring your app is actually accessible as part of your testing strategy.
I mean heck, I tend to just look at ceilings in stores and stuff for cameras because I’ve done it since I was a kid in department stores with those big black orbs in the ceiling. To this day it’s almost habit, and also if I’m gonna pick my nose I wanna smile if I’m on camera.
I worked with and advocated for WP for projects for years. It’s not pretty, but it is well-supported and well-understood; it gets the job done. With Matt’s treatment of WPEngine (with whom I’ve worked with on and off over many years, and have had nothing but good experiences) I’ve written the project off. It’s not just his response to WPE, but the threats, the dictatorial reactions to anyone speaking up, the blatant takeover of plugins etc. I was sad at first, but I’ve come to peace with never touching WP again if I can help it, and this is as a top contributor to the WP StackExchange - I _loved_ the project and the community, and helping others made my heart genuinely happy.
I faced a similar issue with my teachers in high school - iirc I was able to argue that by programming the formulas, I was demonstrating an understanding of them. Being able to show that understanding in our testing was the concern from my teachers’ point of view.
> if you’re a software dev/engineer, if you haven’t made a mistake like this (maybe not at this scale though), you’ve probably haven’t been given enough responsibility, or are just incredibly lucky.
I’ve definitely made bigger mistakes, but we also had an Oracle DB that could INSERT INTO…SELECT FROM -point in time- that pretty much put us back to the point before we started our migration. And of course we had backups rolling all the time, as well as our pre-migration backup. We had a good, competent team, and we overlooked a small but catastrophic detail - it can happen to anyone, the goal should be to have backups and failovers in place because things _will_ fail, at some point, and a contingency plan is just good practice.
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> you don't accidentally become the richest man on the planet by being dumb
The accident of the whom and where he was born did play into it, but I will echo another commenter that he is an amazing capitalist - and I do mean that as an insult to Elon. He has done an amazing job of playing the game in a system that rewards shrewdness, cutthroat action, and manipulation. He managed to get enough clout to be able to lie about just about anything and pay for the echo chamber that makes it real enough.
Overrated? In most aspects yes. In being everything that is wrong with capitalism he’s right on point.
hmm, you call him "overrated" in the same breath as acknowledging he's one of the most effective capitalists alive, isn't this a direct contradiction? It's like saying Escobar was overrated in his field of work, that makes no sense, if you are at the top like few on earth, the man built the largest drug empire on Earth. You can find that repugnant but you can't call it overrated.
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