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		torginus 29 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and su... We hired a guy with an English Lit degree as QA. He was super smart, and really self-motivated. He learned full-stack dev, and wrote a fcking amazing dashboard and test config wizard in like half a year. (This was before AI) People at that point were complaining about tests being hard to run for YEARS. He then left for a dev role at another company in a short time.

steveBK123 29 days ago [–]

And “they had huge impact & left quickly” is actually a good outcome right!

Better than underhiring to set the whole endeavor up for failure

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