I was listening to like the 100th recount of hugging face and Im about to start teaching HS kids about AI again and I was thinking I need to introduce and use agents and agent vocabulary right away. Last year I used Gemini Gems scoped to debugging or ideating or … do you have a better approach now thats more … ‘agentic’ (given the constraints of the environment - basically Google Classroom on Chromebooks…)
Lore: around 10yrs ago Microsoft killed the test role (SDET). Up until that point test/qa had been a parallel disciple to devs (SDEs). The logic was identical - you can’t test what you built. Now devs (SEs) are responsible for live site including oncall
If you're only limited to Google's ecosystem, I believe their version of Claude Code and ChatGPT Work is called Gemini Spark, and I haven't really used it much. It's my understanding that, unlike the other two (which can work on your local drive directly), Spark is fully in the "cloud" inside Google's ecosystem, so it does stuff on your Google Drive, Sheets, but doesn't manipulate anything in your local environment. But if your school gives students access to Spark, I'd start there: It's likely a more limited experience but also saver and because it's in the cloud, it can likely run persistently even while your computer's off, etc. If you do end up trying or successfully using it, I'd love to hear about your experience!
Cool background story about SDET and SDEs - sounds about right. It's like video game studios have entire stress-test departments that do nothing but try and break the game in all sorts of insane ways. They're not the ones crafting the game and the storyline (at least I assume it's never the same person). It makes a lot of sense.
Also, even the best writers like yours truly need an editor to catch their occasional typers and grammerical misteaks.
There's an old joke where Hank Hill needs to open a can of WD-40, so he grabs a tiny can of WD-40 to use on the lid of the bigger can.
No reason.
It's subagents and WD-40. All the way down.
Hear me out: the WD-40 in the tiniest can is made of nanobots. They open the big can for you.
But who WD-40s the nanobots?!
It's Hank Hill all the way down
vcool! Will try
I was listening to like the 100th recount of hugging face and Im about to start teaching HS kids about AI again and I was thinking I need to introduce and use agents and agent vocabulary right away. Last year I used Gemini Gems scoped to debugging or ideating or … do you have a better approach now thats more … ‘agentic’ (given the constraints of the environment - basically Google Classroom on Chromebooks…)
Lore: around 10yrs ago Microsoft killed the test role (SDET). Up until that point test/qa had been a parallel disciple to devs (SDEs). The logic was identical - you can’t test what you built. Now devs (SEs) are responsible for live site including oncall
If you're only limited to Google's ecosystem, I believe their version of Claude Code and ChatGPT Work is called Gemini Spark, and I haven't really used it much. It's my understanding that, unlike the other two (which can work on your local drive directly), Spark is fully in the "cloud" inside Google's ecosystem, so it does stuff on your Google Drive, Sheets, but doesn't manipulate anything in your local environment. But if your school gives students access to Spark, I'd start there: It's likely a more limited experience but also saver and because it's in the cloud, it can likely run persistently even while your computer's off, etc. If you do end up trying or successfully using it, I'd love to hear about your experience!
Cool background story about SDET and SDEs - sounds about right. It's like video game studios have entire stress-test departments that do nothing but try and break the game in all sorts of insane ways. They're not the ones crafting the game and the storyline (at least I assume it's never the same person). It makes a lot of sense.
Also, even the best writers like yours truly need an editor to catch their occasional typers and grammerical misteaks.
Going to try this now!
Awesome, would love to hear how it works out for you!