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Field NotesApril 10, 202620 min read

32 Tests, Zero Dollars: Visual E2E Testing with a VLM Running on My Laptop

I replaced a broken Playwright setup with a vision-language model that looks at screenshots and tells me if the UI is right. 32 tests, 10 minutes, running entirely on Apple Silicon. No cloud. No flaky CI. No bill.

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Field NotesFebruary 15, 20263 min read

Failure is the Universe’s Throttle

We tried to add video to a brand-new voice-note podcast. The laptop overheated, OBS hung, life intervened — and the failure mode was the lesson. Reality doesn’t say ‘no’. It rate-limits you until your pipeline matches your ambition.

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