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What I carried from games to testing to AI

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Three stages of an engineering career, connected by the work of understanding systems when they leave the expected path

Working outline — full essay forthcoming

Rough outline

Games: behavior under interaction

  • Choose a specific moment that exposed a hidden assumption about users or state
  • Describe the engineering response, not just the lesson

Testing: evidence and diagnosis

  • Choose a moment where a reproducible failure changed a team’s understanding
  • Show how testing shaped implementation or release decisions

AI: uncertain execution

  • Choose an agent or ML problem that calls for both earlier skill sets
  • Explain what is genuinely different about nondeterministic behavior

Identify the throughline

  • Compare the three decisions without forcing them into one universal rule
  • End with the skills Anthony is still adapting