A beginner’s journey from a 500-line Program.cs to cleaner, separated code.This comes from my learnings so far and sharing what’s starting to click as I build The Enchanted Garden, a cozy C# game to learn object-oriented programming The Problem: Program.cs…
Why cutting QA right now is backwardsInsights from the field: a conversation with Lucas Smit, AI Forward SDET Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing the same patterns across the QA market: layoffs, impossible reqs, and a growing belief…
Most outbound automation projects fail before implementation ever begins Not because the tools are bad. Not because AI doesn’t work. But because companies often skip the harder questions: Too many teams jump straight into platform selection before validating the economics,…
I recently spoke with a local engineering director at a financial services firm who’s been exploring the market. Not aggressively applying everywhere. Just testing the waters for a senior leadership move he had been targeting. At first glance, everything looked…
I’m seeing a lot of QA automation engineers get filtered out simply because they don’t have direct Playwright experience, even when they have strong Selenium or Cypress backgrounds. Depending on the actual business need, companies may be overlooking highly capable…
An example of modern AI system design in the Charlotte, NC market. AI Forge is a multi-tenant AI platform where each organization operates in a fully isolated environment with its own data, workflows, and execution layer. In this context, “client”…
**I just did a session on this and figured I would share with the group** Most candidates treat every step of the hiring process like a test they have to pass. They prepare answers, hope for the best, and wait…
If you’ve ever moved to a new city, you know how this goes. You’re busy. You don’t know the players yet.And networking? It’s always something you’ll “get to later.” I’ve been talking to several engineering leaders in Charlotte lately who…
Industry: Email Marketing / AgencySolution: Automated Lead Intelligence and Enrichment PipelineStack: n8n + Supabase + CRMAI Enablement Partner: Ovidius AI The Problem: A Lead List That Was Too Big to Use An email marketing agency came to us with a…
Industry: E-Commerce SaaSFocus: SEO Content Production at ScaleSolution: Multi-Agent AI Content Pipeline (n8n + GPT-5 + Claude Sonnet 4 + Gemini 2.5 Pro)AI Enablement Partner: Ovidius AI The Problem: SEO Had a Strategy, but No Scalable Execution The client is…
