Now that we understand our trainwreck of a situation, time for some actual practical advice. This last part will be thin on philosophy, and just concentrate on making you an effective tester in the age of GenAI.
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After failing to build our inductive bridge in part 1, we take the leap anyway to explore what our inductive inferences are even worth when put against the alien form of life that is GenAI.
We begin our exploration of induction informed testing with a straightforward exploration of Hume's riddle of induction, and possible answers and objections. These will lay the foundation for a more nuanced delve in parts 2 and 3.
In this piece we'll have some nerdy fun exploring a cool POV connecting the surprise exam paradox to Godel's incompleteness theorem, then using that to draw insights for project risk management processes. After the fun part, we'll sprinkle in additional pessimism through some empirical data making everything concrete.
In this piece we'll take a walk on edge of rationality itself with one of the least stable philosophers from the last 50 years - Nick Land.
We'll explore his concept of fanged noumenon outside the boundary of rationality, and how it can vindicate the notion and value of exploratory testing. Oh, and there will be rats.
The 2nd part will add some actionable insights through the examination of post-Kuhnian thought and the debate for and against method.
The 1st part will walk through an overview of Kuhn's work, and suggest a mapping of his vocabulary onto a modern software environment.
In this post we'll examine the modern test suite though the lens of dustbowl empiricism. By the end we will have connected everything through a Popperian (with a dash of Bacon) approach.
