Hey Reader, Itās been a while since Iāve issued a newsletter, but Iām hoping to get back on track. There are just so many interesting things happening in the world of IT that I want to share with you all. But Iāve decided to change my approach to writing this newsletter a little bit. In the past, my main goal was to come up with some idea or some thought and basically write a post. This put a lot of pressure on me and I never wanted to force myself into writing a newsletter when I had nothing...
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Filip Hric 22th July 2025 AI, BDD, and Why We're Bad at Predicting the Future Hello Reader,Lately, it seems the conversation around AI has shifted. We're moving past the initial "what can this chat window do?" phase and into the more practical, and sometimes awkward, integration into our development lifecycle. To me, one of the most interesting moments recently is that we're seeing major players like Amazon use BDD for AI-driven requirement planning. Plus the whole ecosystem of AI builder...
8 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Filip Hric 13th May 2025 TO BE OR NOT TO BE (TECHNICAL) Hey Reader!Thereās an ongoing debate in the QA world on whether it makes sense to get technical or not. I remember having a fairly heated debate on this last November at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam. My talk titled "Test like a developer, develop like a tester" argued that we should put the effort as testers to become experts in the software we test. And yes, that includes having a fair bit of developer knowledge. Jason Arbon called...
10 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Filip Hric 23rd April 2025 AN APP CAN BE A HOME-COOKED MEAL He Reader,Today Iād love to share with you one of the best blogposts Iāve ever read. It warmed my heart and inspired me greatly. The blogpost is called "An app can be a home-cooked meal". Give it a read. It taps into something thatās really close to my heart - using your talents to make a world a better place - starting with your family. While you can be a world-renowned chef, it will always feel different when you cook a meal for...
11 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Filip Hric 24th March 2025 Playwright in Production Hello Reader,Iāll be doing a live webinar with my friend Jonathan tomorrow. Weāll be talking about different use-cases of Playwright in production. Interestingly weāll focus on use cases that are outside of testing, like web-scraping, monitoring and automation workflows. Make sure to register and join us! Register here Blogposts, discussions, events In Case You Missed It ā Code (r)evolution Livestream Last week, Jonathan and I unpacked...
12 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Filip Hric 18th March 2025 Code (r)evolution is here Hello Reader,Weāre living through a massive shift in how code is written. AI is no longer just a sidekickāitās building entire features in minutes. Supabase is becoming the go-to AI-friendly database, and vibe coding is turning into a movement (controversial or not). Thatās why Jonathan and I are going live this Wednesday to break it all down. Weāll talk about whatās happening, where AI is leading us, and what this means for developers and...
12 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Filip Hric 11th March 2024 Looking for a New Challenge Hello Reader,Big changes ahead! One of my major contracts is wrapping up this month, which means Iām now open to new opportunities in consulting, engineering, or DevRel. If your team is looking for someone to improve test reliability, create better documentation, or integrate AI into development workflows, letās talk. I specialize in: āļø Rescuing unstable test suites & making QA developer-friendly āļø Creating educational content (docs,...
about 1 year agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Filip Hric 18th February 2025 FLAKY TESTS Hello Reader,Iāve been working on a project to reduce test flakes. A project that has over 1200 end-to-end tests in a fairly complex system. As Iāve been slowly trying to reach zero, a pattern emerged. It seems like there are common themes when it comes to test flakiness. I shared some of them in my presentation at CypressConf, but lately it seems that flakiness in end-to-end tests is mostly a timing issue. A situation where test and application fall...
about 1 year agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Filip Hric 12th February 2025 LLMs ARE NOT MAGIC Hello Reader,Ever wondered why ChatGPT sometimes gives odd or completely wrong answers? My personal guess is that we tend to treat them like magic. Or treat them like a person. But they are none of that. Andrej Karpathy goes deep in this 3 and half hour video on what LLMs are, how are they trained, programmed to fix their own biases and more. If you ever used ChatGPT or any other LLM, I think itās a great watch to set your mental model straight...
about 1 year agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read