Frank Terragna

The secret ingredient to Flaky Tests? Bad data. Stop blaming bad tests. Start focusing on how you seed your data. The success of your QA process depends on it.

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The best sign your team is moving fast? When other engineers start pointing it out publicly (unprompted). This type of speed doesn’t come from top down mandates (you can't fake it). It comes from a culture where everyone feels real ownership and obsesses over the customer experience. Speed is the only real moat startups have. And once you lose it, it’s almost impossible to get it back. That’s why we’re constantly watching for early signs of drag and doing everything we can to protect velocity. For us, that starts with who we hire. We’ve taken our time building the team, and set a very high bar for who we bring on. It's also a reason why 50% of our engineering team are former founders, who naturally bring that mindset to everything they do. That compounds week over week. And before you know it, people outside the company start noticing too.

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The ROI isn’t just speed—it’s transfer. Prompting patterns I used for: - Survey design → also work for interview guides. - Terraform reviews → also work for policy checks. - Meeting digests → also work for PRDs. Learn once, apply everywhere.

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Kernel aims to support every protocol that an AI agent needs to do its work. Today we’re introducing support for WebDriver BiDi, a W3C open protocol that allows agents to access and navigate websites. BiDi enables first-class support for Vibium, a new browser agent framework from the creator of Selenium. We’ve partnered with the Vibium team to build a native integration with Kernel browsers, which you can try on our platform today. We'll continue enhancing our platform to provide bleeding edge support for AI agents to access the internet. Give Vibium x Kernel a try and let us know how it goes!

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Spotify’s use of AI to automate large-scale engineering work highlights how agentic tools are already reshaping how enterprise software is built, maintained, and deployed. When you pair that with OpenAI saying GPT-5.3-Codex was instrumental in creating itself, it really drives home how fast this space is moving.

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