Trunk-Based Thierry

Published: Don’t Let AI Invert The Testing Pyramid

Lately, I encountered a specific article titled "Quality Engineering with AI". I have seen it shared with a dangerous level of enthusiasm within organisations.

To the untrained eye, the article appears to validate a so-called "modern" testing strategy; to anyone who understands software economics and the mechanics of software delivery, it is plain disconcerting.

https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2026/04/12/dont-let-ai-invert-the-testing-pyramid.html

Comprehension Debt in the context of AI

notes from Denali Lumma via the DORA community

That was a bit of my worry, that people no longer make the effort to understand and internalise. There have been more posts about that: there is an upcoming reasoning deficit.

We have seen this with Stackoverflow to some extent (nothing bad about SO, great tool, it has been very helpful). Now it risks being exacerbated.

https://gist.github.com/rossdm/080959eb58a5f72bcc297925b0a5be36

An article was shared on one of my clients’ Slack about AI and testing: how about approaching testing when AI is changing the code all the time, kind of.
The people are enthusiastic about the article coz it kind of confirms their not-so-performant testing strategy.
I violently disagree with the article because it confirms bad habits.

So, want to write an article about it, but referencing the article feels like shaming the author. How to avoid that? How should I move forward?

WTF is this UK ETA shit?!?

19 EURs, really???

You really don't want anyone to come to the UK, do you?

Apparently, according to tech conferences, IT delivery is no longer a topic.

From my humble experience, screening orgs for due diligence and through consulting activities, delivery is like the exact number one problem orgs have.

But I guess, attendees do not want to be confronted with this harsh truth 🤔 🤷

Anyway, let's continue burning money on AI to fix the non-bottlenecks ... 🙄

Published: What is Continuous Delivery?

Over the years, I have interviewed and observed a decent number of technology organisations. Many shared that they have Continuous Delivery in place. But, only a few really practised Continuous Delivery. There is a lot of misunderstanding about what Continuous Delivery actually is and what it entails.

It takes nine principles, one heuristic, three foundations, one pattern and three practices to practice truly Continuous Delivery.

https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2026/01/09/what-is-continuous-delivery.html