Code reviews: what are they good for?
Before you outsource code reviews to an agent, ask what they're really for. You could be losing hidden work.
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Articles relating to leadership in technology written by Anne-Marie Charrett
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What the Dashboard won't tell you
Confidence is a visibility problem. Load is something else. Both matter, and collapsing them costs the one happening to people
Stop Measuring Fast. Start Measuring Better
AI is moving PR throughput. But throughput isn't the whole story. When the bottleneck moves, the pressure shows up somewhere else. Measure better, not faster.
Everyone owns quality. Nobody knows what that means
When organisations cut QA headcount, they redistribute the work without redistributing the definition — and most of the time, nobody notices until production does.
Contract Testing Isn't the Hard Part
Product teams mostly know the value of contract testing. The hard part is implementation. Where do they start? A reusable AI playbook — built on risk reasoning — can give them that starting point in minutes.
My Genie Got It Wrong: Evaluating LLMs for a RAG Chatbot
How do you choose the right LLM for a RAG chatbot? I compared Llama 70B, 405B, and GPT-4 across 100 iterations. The AI agent's recommendation was wrong.
There are no bad testers only bad systems
Avoid labelling people as good or bad testers, focus on how to improve the system