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Never was my core skill (or anyone for several decades) and I am not in the IT industry anymore and it was the only tool available. But from my very meagre experience of AI in development I can see why it can speed up some of the grunt work. That said, I did have to expand the database design and...
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I tended to find the more drawn out the recruitment process, the less likely it would come to anything.
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Well done to anyone who has found anything, contract or permanent, and keep on going to those who haven’t.
in my (non IT) new role I setup an admittedly straightforward Access database and it took about 5 minutes in Co Pilot. Beginning to see why a lot of us are struggling.
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I agree about you favoured approach to testing but the industry seems to have become obsessed with frameworks and tools ahead of domain knowledge (which can be picked up to an extent) and soft skills such as Test Analysis, planning, etc....
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