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AI Testing
September 17, 2026 / 14 min

Temperature 0 Isn't Deterministic — Your AI Test Is Flaky

Temperature 0 gives you greedy decoding, not reproducibility. Batch size on the server flips tokens — here's what your Playwright tests should assert instead.

Filed under ai-testing /playwright
AI Testing
September 3, 2026 / 13 min

Your Playwright Timeouts Are Wrong for AI Features

AI features have a 5-10x p50-to-p99 latency gap driven by cold starts and queuing. A single fixed Playwright timeout can't tell a slow model from a broken one.

Filed under ai-testing /playwright
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