Engineering Insights

Write-ups on test strategy, production failures, and evaluating AI systems

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Using AI to Build a Playwright Test from Scratch

Turning a single feature into a full Playwright suite with AI, and finding out that most of the work wasn't writing code, it was reviewing it.

Building an AI testing framework for hospitality assistants

The biggest risk isn't that these assistants fail, it's that they answer confidently while getting small but important details wrong.

Evaluating AI Agents with Realistic User Scenarios

What happened when I gave an AI agent a goal instead of a script to explore a live booking flow, and what it found that scripted automation couldn't

Lessons from Production That Changed My Test Strategy

A QA engineer's perspective on the coordination failures that scripted tests miss

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Why boutique hotels end up using Excel Sheets

On why automation gets abandoned when the tool itself is wrong for the job