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Practical writing on AI security, evaluation, testing strategy, and building production AI systems that don't fail quietly.

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OpinionApril 17, 2025ยท8 min read

Will AI Replace QA Engineers? I Think We're Asking the Wrong Question.

Companies are using AI as an excuse to cut QA budgets. Some already have. Zillow, Air Canada, Amazon โ€” here's what actually happens when you remove the human function responsible for adversarial thinking.

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StrategyApril 10, 2025ยท8 min read

Your QA Vendor Sends You a Report Every Friday. You Still Have No Idea Where Quality Stands.

Weekly PDF reports don't give you visibility. They give you a delayed, filtered snapshot that's already out of date by the time you read it. Real transparency looks completely different.

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SecurityApril 10, 2025ยท11 min read

Indirect Prompt Injection: The Attack That Hides Inside Your Data

The most dangerous prompt injection isn't typed by the user. It's hiding inside a document your AI is about to read, a webpage it's about to summarise, or an email it's about to process.

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Industry TrendsApril 9, 2025ยท9 min read

Why QA Outsourcing Fails โ€” And What the 'Senior QA' on Your Project Is Actually Doing

You hired a QA firm with impressive case studies. They assigned a 'senior engineer' to your project. Six months later, you're writing the test cases yourself. Here's why this keeps happening.

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SecurityApril 8, 2025ยท10 min read

Your AI Chatbot Passed QA. It's Still Vulnerable.

It passed functional testing. It passed regression. It handles edge cases gracefully. And a single sentence from a user can make it ignore every instruction you gave it.

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Industry TrendsMarch 18, 2025ยท12 min read

The Future of Software Testing: How the QA Landscape Is Being Transformed by AI

AI-powered applications behave probabilistically. The assumptions baked into classical testing no longer hold โ€” and the industry is only just waking up to that.

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SecurityFeb 10, 2025ยท8 min read

Prompt Injection: The Security Threat Every AI Team Is Underestimating

It bypasses every firewall you have. It requires no credentials. And most teams shipping LLM features have zero defenses against it.

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ReliabilityJan 22, 2025ยท7 min read

Chaos Engineering for Startups: You Don't Need Netflix's Budget to Break Things Safely

Chaos engineering has a reputation as an enterprise-only discipline. That reputation is wrong โ€” and it's holding startups back from building resilient systems.

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AI TestingJan 8, 2025ยท10 min read

Measuring LLM Quality: A Practitioner's Guide to Evaluation Metrics That Actually Matter

BLEU scores and perplexity tell you almost nothing about whether your LLM is actually good. Here's what to measure instead.

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StrategyDec 12, 2024ยท9 min read

Shift-Left QA in Practice: What It Actually Takes to Embed Quality From Sprint Zero

'Shift left' has been a QA buzzword for a decade. Most teams have no idea what it actually requires to implement it properly.

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