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Fuzz Testing with Brendan Hansknecht
Season 1, Ep. 93
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Richard talks with Brendan Hansknecht, an AI compiler engineer at Modular, about various testing techniques, including fuzzing, property-based tests, database tests, tests involving network requests, and more!
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