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Taken from the same blog: "Roughly, RAG is runtime prompt engineering where you build a system to dynamically add relevant things to your prompt before you ask the agent for an ans…

Have you considered a land-and-expand rollout, where you focus on getting an active community going in one or two cities before you expand? Otherwise, folks from underserved cities…

Spoilers: "But the impact has actually been fantastic. Some highlights: - ~$1m of sales pipeline generated in 3 weeks, ~$100k already closed - ~10% of the free customers converted …

Following the logic in the article: it's not actually a good outcome for the business when "Your QA people are the only ones charged with being an organizational conscience on the …

For sure. For me, the best (worst) sign of 'not proactive enough' re: quality is too many embarrassments and/or hotfixes happening.

In my experience, many orgs that work with Selenium and its derivatives have described that (coded) approach as flaky / brittle (i.e., fragile). Of course, until automation gets to…

Totally agree that automation will never fully replace the value of human-powered testing. (Though it is great for the rote regression-testing stuff. The "drudgery", as you put it.…

Yeah, the good ones really care about the product experience and customer outcomes, so this makes a lot of sense to me. But what do you mean?

When I was a PM, I was lucky to have a big, talented QA team, but I still knew I'd have to do a "smoke test" myself after every major feature release. I cared the most, and I knew …

I've been on teams where the "siloed" QA model seemed to work pretty well -- we seemed to find a decent balance between test coverage and frequency of releases. But this was at a c…

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The most useful insights come from the user reviews shared to those sites. You just have to remember that they're just like any other online review: you mostly hear from the very h…

Very kind!

Thank you! Glad it was compelling.

Excellent compliment, thank you.

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it.

ahrefs. The full methodology is described in the article.

That's a good point. I'll clarify this in the post.

Haha!

Fantastic, I'm glad to hear the insights in the piece were helpful to you, Jonathan.