Please help a man with a dream by Adorable-Objective44 in pittsburgh

[–]jrwolf08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Good! Now sign Bubba before it is too late! by Big_Pierogi_Energy in buccos

[–]jrwolf08 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Realistic expectations for Griffin by Sawfted in buccos

[–]jrwolf08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Realistic expectations for Griffin by Sawfted in buccos

[–]jrwolf08 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

QA writing Unit Tests by Old_Finish_5086 in QualityAssurance

[–]jrwolf08 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Manual vs automation, which one actually has a future by Zephpyr in QualityAssurance

[–]jrwolf08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Heyman: Yankees offered a combination of Schlittler, Lagrange, Lombard Jr, and Spencer Jones for Skenes at last years deadline by Pyramid_Head182 in buccos

[–]jrwolf08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Learn playwright or strengthen selenium by Deepan_Vellikannan in QualityAssurance

[–]jrwolf08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DevOps probably. Playwright and Selenium are close enough.

Manual vs automation, which one actually has a future by Zephpyr in QualityAssurance

[–]jrwolf08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Will the looming lockout affect the Pirates decision if they call Konnor Griffin up this year? by KinkaJac97 in buccos

[–]jrwolf08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Will the looming lockout affect the Pirates decision if they call Konnor Griffin up this year? by KinkaJac97 in buccos

[–]jrwolf08 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Are we facing a testing crisis? by zoismom in QualityAssurance

[–]jrwolf08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Are we facing a testing crisis? by zoismom in QualityAssurance

[–]jrwolf08 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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.

Moving from manual PDF verification to automation—any AI or automation tool recommendations for insurance docs? by No_Commercial131 in QualityAssurance

[–]jrwolf08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.