CJ Bill
@cjbill.bsky.social
Tester techie type at, ahem, a major UK media corporation, cyclist, reader of sci-fi and prehistory, dad. Occasional conference speaker on test philosophy, management and all things UAT Looking forward to shouting into the void on a new platform
For those of you in the test community my latest blog on evaluating AI for test creation is up... and wow, does bsky not like the graphic there! Someone should raise a ticket. bill-watson.co.uk/2026/09/18/m...
Moving from “why measure AI tests?” to “How do we measure them?”
In my previous blog post, I laid out why I wanted to evaluate how useful AI could be in my test creation process. I wanted evidence I could use to make informed and defensible decisions about what …
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Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
For those in the testing community I've started a blog series based on a study I've been running of late. lnkd.in/p/eS-HTcky
Why We Measured AI Instead of Trusting It | Bill Watson
AI is everywhere, including the world of testing. It promises productivity boosts, democratised software and sunlit uplands. Or droughts, AI slop and mass white-collar unemployment. Take your pick. E...
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We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.
this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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@gilduran.com got my copy here courtesy of The Guardian bookshop. Bedtime reading and you can be sure I'll be recommending it and and discussing it with anyone who will listen
I've got my copy, strongly recommend anyone who works in or is interested in tech or politics or just living in a livable world to get it as well
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last mo.It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
‘A delivery was attempted today.’ From the new Private Eye, out now.
I think punk was basically politically fine until any of its participants got on the property ladder, a path which leads directly to Julie Birchall
To hell with Musk and his Grok Odyssey remake, I'm doing it with fruit
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Whelp everyone is out so I have a rare evening alone. Just me, a bottle of red, very ripe camembert and The Sentinels on the tv
Zanny Minton Beddoes, "You say things like: civil war in Britain is inevitable" Elon Musk, "On the current trends, yes" ZMD, "I live there, that is not true.. London is a much safer city than any city in the US"
Looking forward to watching the hit new Elon Musk Grok Odyssey Movie in the middle of a Mars river in my fully aquatic and self-driving Cybertruck having paid for the ticket via my bank account on X, the Everything App, as I marvel at the post-DOGE balanced US federal budget.
Yes that's how jobs work. Equally we could say "Journalist Codie Bullen was paid to write this Daily Mail 'shameless' anti-BBC propaganda"
Time to add crimes against fashion to the list of charges.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
