Let's talk quality: a proper About page and a free QA coffee
Why I finally built a proper About page, where I can genuinely help, and how to book a free 30-minute QA coffee.
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Quality at AI Speed
The model was confident and wrong. Designing for that.
Last week I argued that a quality gate earns its keep by where it sits — place the check just upstream of where the mistake turns expensive, and you catch defects while they're still cheap to fix. I stand by every word. So here's the failure that walks straight through all of it.
Gate design 101: where quality checks belong in the loop
Reviewer design: catching what the architect tier misses
Trust Is Produced, Not Felt
Quality at machine speed: ~70,000 tests, static analysis, and the review bias nobody warns you about
My conferences
Istambul Software Testing Conference 2025
My first conference in Turkey, and a critical-thinking talk in front of a room with no idea who I was. The discussion kept coming back to balancing AI with fundamentals. I now think balance is the wrong word.
TestFest : 2025
QA or the Highway 2025: the conference was one stop on a three-week research trip
The Chapter, and the Company It Keeps
Is the token even the right unit of account?
The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis
CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate
Leadership
Istambul Software Testing Conference 2025
My first conference in Turkey, and a critical-thinking talk in front of a room with no idea who I was. The discussion kept coming back to balancing AI with fundamentals. I now think balance is the wrong word.
Quality engineering doesn't save money. It buys the right to decide.
Your bug backlog is a list of decisions nobody made
The Chapter, and the Company It Keeps
The Speed Trap: AI Made Us Faster Than We Can Justify
BowFest 2026: what a field full of archers told me that no test suite could
From Vision to Production: the whole series, in one place
AI Orchestration
The model was confident and wrong. Designing for that.
Last week I argued that a quality gate earns its keep by where it sits — place the check just upstream of where the mistake turns expensive, and you catch defects while they're still cheap to fix. I stand by every word. So here's the failure that walks straight through all of it.
Gate design 101: where quality checks belong in the loop
The overengineering tax: when three tiers cost more than one
The Complete AI Orchestration Journey: From Claude Web Chat to Production iOS App
Reviewer design: catching what the architect tier misses
Stop prompting, start delegating
