Usual end of year episode where we reflect on 2024, and look forward to 2025.

Once again, we ramble on topics we didn't plan on talking about.

Welp - Alan asked Brent how it was going, he said it was review season, and then 40 minutes of babbling commenced

We're lazy, so we let chatgpt kick us off with a mailbag question. Tangents followed.

It's hard to tell what we talked about in this episode. But it involved a sleep-deprived Alan, and Brent, the Cat-Lady.

The wonderful Dagna Bieda joins us to talk about her new book, Brain Refactor.

Buy the book at https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Refactor-Engineering-Fulfillment-Opportunities/dp/B0DB69G798/ and learn more about Dagna at https://www.themindfuldev.com/

We talk about this article - https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you/ - which is good, but hyperbolic at times.

Just like millions of others, we feel the need to talk about crowdstrike - just a bit. Then we talk about leadership, engagement, and potential new podcasting ventures.

It's another episode of the AI Testing Podcast, where we discuss the advancements of AI, parallels to nuclear war, and what humans will do in the future.

Links -

OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework

The Day After

We talk about a lot of stuff - because that's what we do. Somewhere in there, we talk about the overlap between the ways of devops and MT, and Brent threatens to rewrite the first principle.