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  1. What does a token actually cost?

    I tried to find out what a token costs. Anthropic's docs gave me two definitions, four models gave me four answers, and the same call gave me two.

  2. So guys, why do we test?

    On a dog walk I hit tip 66 of "The Pragmatic Programmer" again "Testing Is Not About Finding Bugs" and it kicked off an argument between the tester in me and the developer in me. Here's how I'm trying to let the tester win.

  3. How to manage cognitive offloading as a tester

    I use AI daily, and a couple of months ago I started to get worried, since I was doing less thinking and more prompting, and it started affecting me as a tester.