IT

I work in IT, but I am a historian. I studied “Language and Culture Studies, with a specialization in the history of international relations” to be exact, but that’s too much of a mouthful, so historian it is! As a historian, you basically study the repeated fuck-ups of humanity

The more they want to force me to offload my work to an LLM, the more I'll grab my pen and paper to take notes, take my time to think, to plan my work, to do my work; slowly and thoroughly. The more they want to de-skill me,

When you browse LinkedIn, you mostly see people drone on about "AI": How it made them more productive without sacrificing quality. How they fear the pace at which things (tools) are changing and whether they can adapt to what is expected of them (by management, or self-inflicted fear

One of the best things as a software tester is working with developers. One of the most frustrating things as a software tester is working with developers. The frustration stems from the fact that developers and testers often have completely different thought models around what testing is and isn'

Right now seems like the perfect moment to write about my mission as a test consultant because it seems that a lot of people in tech simply stopped caring. They swallowed the proverbial red pill and are droning on about tools, technology, "AI", speed, productivity. I thought technology