@drothlis

Co-founder of https://xitter.cf/t.co/NpFuX2OjiO

 London, England
david.rothlis.net
Joined November 2009
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David Röthlisberger retweeted
stb-tester@stb_tester8 Sep 2025
Stb-tester is exhibiting at #IBC2025 this week! Drop by our stand (14.B57) to see how our private, on-device AI models can be adopted incrementally in your existing test scripts. stb-tester.com/ibc
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What happened to #10FOOT? 😟
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16 months since david.rothlis.net/gpt3-and-s… and LLMs still don't know left from right.
Output from Gemini: * Up arrow followed by Right arrow: If YouTube is to the upper left of ESPN, press "Up" once, then "Right" to move the focus.

ALT Output from Gemini: * Up arrow followed by Right arrow: If YouTube is to the upper left of ESPN, press "Up" once, then "Right" to move the focus.

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ChatGPT-4o can find the focus from a screenshot of the UI, but still has no clue what left & right mean:
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David Röthlisberger retweeted
stb-tester@stb_tester24 Jul 2024
Celebrating 10 years of Stb-tester: stb-tester.com/blog/2024/03/…
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David Röthlisberger retweeted
stb-tester@stb_tester29 Feb 2024
Stb-tester's new "Smart Navigation" functions: stb-tester.com/blog/2024/02/…
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Primer: facebook's HTMX from 2010 blog.williammanley.net/2024/…
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David Röthlisberger retweeted
The Guardian
@guardian19 Feb 2024
The pet I’ll never forget: Simón the street dog was my loyal companion – and a daring solo explorer theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

The pet I’ll never forget: Simón the street dog was my loyal companion – and a daring solo explorer

I had been promised a labrador. What I got was a snarling creature that my uncle had found in an alley. We ended up deeply in love, but he never lost his wild side

theguardian.com
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This reminds me of Vandewiele et al's 2020 metastudy that found FIFTY PERCENT of ML papers trained on a particular electrohysterography dataset had train/test set data leakage: david.rothlis.net/vandewiele…
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@svpino27 Apr 2023
Andrew Ng is one of the most recognized researchers in the world. In 2017, a team he led published a paper with a huge mistake. 11 days later, they had to publish a correction. Here is what happened:
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In the @AppleTV latest update (tvOS 16.2 20K362) the "Reduce transparency" and "Increase contrast" accessibility settings appear to be doing the opposite.
"Watch Now" with default settings.

ALT "Watch Now" with default settings.

"Watch Now" with "Reduce transparency". The text is hard to read.

ALT "Watch Now" with "Reduce transparency". The text is hard to read.

"Watch Now" with "Reduce transparency" and "Increase contrast". The text is even harder to read.

ALT "Watch Now" with "Reduce transparency" and "Increase contrast". The text is even harder to read.

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I hooked up GPT-3 to Stb-tester: david.rothlis.net/gpt3-and-s… It's surprisingly good at generating Python, even without the Codex/Copilot programming-specific model. But damn is it frustrating to work with for anything remotely complex.
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Hmm, GPT-3 already knows about PageObjects (of course it does). This could simplify my prompt (github.com/stb-tester/gpt3-d…) considerably.
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What are PageObject static methods for? 3 correct answers out of 4:
#Copilot ported my test-runner to be a #pytest plugin:
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I couldn't get it to add the config options defined in a separate file (`_stbt.core.argparser()` on line 21) but adding those manually was literally all I needed to do to get it working.
LATAM Airlines' Spanish-language website displaying country names in Spanish but sorting by their English name. 🤨
Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite: david.rothlis.net/declarativ…
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Discussed on HN yesterday: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
To use open-source libraries, Google rewrites the libraries' makefiles to use Google's internal build system. "By doing so the huge proprietary megacorp gains more of the benefits of software freedom than the free-software distros can!" blog.williammanley.net/2020/…
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