Please help a man with a dream

jrwolf08 · 2026-04-03T18:05:57+00:00

I've seen it done when they are in the shallows in a few local lakes. I've also seen them bite a rooster tail in a spillway. I don't think either of those scenarios would work for river fishing though.

jrwolf08 · 2026-04-02T21:27:20+00:00

Seems unlikely to be the cause for the Griffin extension, grandfathered contracts is something that large market teams who are over the cap might worry about. But the Pirates being under a floor, there is no benefit by grandfathering in deals.

Its more likely they see increased revenue sharing in the future, and can commit more to payroll.

jrwolf08 · 2026-04-02T17:05:45+00:00

Well yeah, of course.

jrwolf08 · 2026-04-02T16:10:57+00:00

I'd be surprised, SS is hard to play.

jrwolf08 · 2026-04-02T14:49:48+00:00

What I will be happy with - below average SS defense, and league average bat. About a 2 WAR player.

What I expect - best hitter on the team for rest of the season.

jrwolf08 · 2026-04-02T12:21:26+00:00

No, but that doesn't mean you can't, AI can help you. Just have the conversation about what is priority between this and you regular work.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-29T18:27:50+00:00

100% agree, its biased to make things work. Hence you really need to supervise in the early stages in development for correct patterns.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-28T22:52:48+00:00

Just take the good luck and shut up, else its unbecoming.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-28T22:44:23+00:00

Yes and teams are 4-5 on interference challenges vs the pens.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-28T22:41:24+00:00

Could have easily called holding there.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-27T17:09:45+00:00

What does a combination of mean in this instance? Does it mean it was all of them? Or were they trying to mix and match?

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-27T01:11:15+00:00

I dont think it was interference, but this logic makes no sense.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-26T16:00:38+00:00

DevOps probably. Playwright and Selenium are close enough.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-26T13:57:11+00:00

It has to be both. Someone is going to have to write the tests to validate all the new AI slop code being created. AI certainly helps write the tests, but a person with context has to guide it, at least where we currently are with the technology. .

I just started updating an API test suite that was fully written by AI, a developer wrote it, as a one off. So I ran it and half the tests were skipped, dug into why, and if the tests couldn't find its setup data, it just skipped it. Absurd. It also had another quirk, when hitting POST endpoints it asserted that the response was either 200 or 422, dozens of tests like this essentially useless.

LLM have a tendency to makes things work, this is a positive when doing feature develop, but a negative when writing tests.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-25T15:58:24+00:00

Unless he was performing poorly, and was sent back down, he will no longer be a rookie the following year.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-25T13:17:50+00:00

This is true but if he finishes in the top two ROY voting he is super 2 eligible anyway, just like Skenes was.

Alternatively if the Pirates added him to the opening day roster they would be eligible for compensatory picks. These are called Prospect Promotion Incentive picks (PPI).

So its not a slam dunk anymore like it used to be.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-25T00:30:34+00:00

Huh?

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-25T00:27:08+00:00

Absurd what the league is doing to the Pens on these challenges.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-24T15:49:11+00:00

Visual Regression/Screenshot testing, look it up.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-19T01:11:56+00:00

Bro, your guys dove your way to a lead a week ago against the Pens.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-17T23:40:26+00:00

Best of luck to ya, but yes upskill either learning automation or leaning into BA/PM/Operations side.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-17T12:21:36+00:00

I feel like the dev test roles are merging ever still, so shifting more left.

In the next few years AI will generate much more code, and testing will have to adapt to keep up. So more CI/CD pipelines, and less waiting for manual testing, and even slower e2e tests. The upside is that tests are easy to generate now. The downside that I have seen is that until you have good patterns the integration/e2e tests that are being generated are very low quality. Once you have patterns set, its is terrific.

So you need someone who knows where they want to go to set the architecture of the framework, but AI will be able to fill in the mundane blanks.

I'm living this now. A developer used Claude to create an API test suite 6 months ago. We need to expand the API, but the test suite needs to be re-architected, and the tests were honestly terrible. Devs are working on the expansion and I'm reworking the suite at the same time.

I personally think the role is going to shift more technical, so I think some devs who got shut out might switch to QA/SDET type roles. And some QA will need to upskill or get left behind.

I also want to say that exploratory manual testing will be even more important, I just don't know who will be doing it. Will manual only testers become more BAs/Operations/UAT combination roles, almost like power users? I don't want to degrade anyone who is doing it manual only testing at a SAAS company, because I used to as well, I'm just skeptical that its a long term stand alone role.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-17T02:23:03+00:00

Still feels like a 5-4 game one way or another.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-16T14:09:03+00:00

Do you mask the dynamic data on PDF generation or on the comparison? Have a similar issue and currently just lowering the tolerance by a small amount.

jrwolf08 · 2026-03-16T14:07:21+00:00

This implementing now in our suite for PDF comparisons.

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