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Damien Tanner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
791 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Like all these things.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

There's like 20 different tests you had to do.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I gave it that script and I was like, write the test suite for all of these tests.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And then I gave it all these bugs we had in our backlog.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I was like, write tests for this.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And I just started doing TDD in our backlog.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Then I was like, write a bunch.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I did like a chaos monkey thing.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I was like, write a bunch of tests for like crazy stuff the users could do with the API.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Found a bunch of bugs and issues, security issues.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And then it kind of, it got it working, had a bunch of unit tests and I was still having to kind of do a bit of manual testing.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And then one day I was like, oh, you know what?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

I really want like a, no one's made an integration test thing for voice agents.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

There are a few observation platforms, observability platforms and eval platforms where I was like, I just, I want it to simulate conversation.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And, you know, so it's so like, that's part of the magic is trying something that you're like, this is a pain in the ass to build.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Or like, how is this even going to work?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

Well, I just got it to build it.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The era of the Small Giant (Interview)

And I've recorded some WAV files of me saying things and I gave it to them.