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Language, Growing Your Career and the Tester’s AI Toolkit: Jakub Konicki & Adam Matłacz on Evolving Roles and Skills
Season 1, Ep. 6
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This episode was recorded LIVE at the EuroSTAR Conference in Stockholm.
Thank you to our Community Hosts for Season One, Russell Craxford from the UK Department of Work and Pensions, and Gek Yeo of AIPCA.
On this episode,you will hear from Russell Craxford from the UK Department of Work and Pensions, Jackub Konicki - QA Manager at MakoLab and podcaster, and Adam Matłacz, CTO at Space To Grow, Poland, and EuroSTAR Speaker and tutorial lead. They talk about growing in your job with AI, the future of LLM’s and the complications from using different languages while creating with AI. We hope you enjoy!
Check out the current programme of talks on the EuroSTAR 2025 website.
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