{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Vernon Richard Show","title":"The Job Your Boss Thinks You Do Is Disappearing","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3936,"description":"The chaps dig into another Keithism to see where it takes them.Keith Klain published a blog post that drew a line in the sand for testers. His conclusion is blunt: there's a specific type of testing work that too many in our industry believe is our raison d'etre, while the market is rapidly reassessing its value (and not in a good way!).Chapters00:00 - Intro01:12 - Welcome (may contain traces of Premier League banter)03:00 - Who is Keith Klain and why should you listen to him?06:30 - Checking vs testing: what's the actual difference?12:00 - Keith's warning: AI is coming for the…12:56 - The CEO has one job…14:04 - …and they have two ways to do it15:31 - If your value isn’t the amount of tests you’ve executed, what is it?19:42 - Richard's updated AiT principle: shared understanding over assumed understanding23:53 - Shift left is more than \"test the requirement first\"27:18 - The ways your perceived value is constantly moving.31:57 - Maaike's stance: what if you refuse to use AI entirely?34:09 - Too big to fail? What AI investment really means for the industry39:53 - The skill no one taught testers that now matters most42:54 - \"Become the insufferable AI person\" and other survival tactics45:22 - Keith's call to action47:09 - Why no one at Test Coast said \"risk\" when asked why they test51:01 - AI summaries as input to other AI: the risk nobody designed for54:00 - How one bad step ruins everything55:27 - Statistics, Hugging Face, and the skills testers need to learn next57:43 - There’s more than one way to “be technical”59:54 - A rallying cry from Rich to the testing community01:04:00 - Forward-deployed engineers: just a QE by another name?Links to stuff we mentioned during the pod:03:00 - Keith KlainKeith's blog Quality RemarksThe blog post that triggered this episode: \"Checking isn't testing. Soon it won't be employment either.\"Keith's LinkedIn19:33 - ELT stands for Executive Leadership Team aka The C-Suite. The folks who have job titles like Chief Executive Office...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UFGkkh_jsZubLbpE6txGLPU3-7iIlh6gJ0JsseFDEm0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iM2Zk/NGQ3NDk4NmVkNjA5/OGJmMzA0ODQxMWIy/N2ExOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}