Gleb Bahmutov

@bahmutov.bsky.social

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JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, software quality fanatic. Sr Director of Engineering https://gleb.dev/

Google ai predictions for World Cup. Predicts that England might win the World Cup while showing that England is out of the final game.
Certificate of completion of "Cypress Basics" online course.
SKA company in Cambridge Massachusetts with cyber truck with ska branding on its side parked in from of the office.
SKA company in Cambridge Massachusetts with cyber truck with ska branding on its side parked in from of the office.
Gleb Bahmutov speaker profile image from Nordic Testing Days Tallinn Estonia June 2026
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Google ai answers simple questions incorrectly
Gleb, I’m fully aware that we need to figure out how to house young people, young families and City workers in Cambridge. I am committed to helping to solve this problem-- a tough one, since it costs about $1m to build a unit. But the MFH Ordinance is NOT the way to do this. It will make Cambridge less affordable NOT more affordable. Naturally affordable housing, where I lived in my 20ies, is being torn down and replaced with $2.5-$3m units. These units are NOT affordable. We can’t rely on the market to build us out of this situation, especially since there is a global market for Cambridge real estate. We must find other solutions. Cathie
Letter to Cambridge council member Zusy. Dear council member Zusy, I accidentally saw your instagram post calling a modest 4 story building a "Titanic" in size and out of character, I refer to this post https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhvGzKx9iu/. Let me register my worry for you, are you ok? Do you understand that building more desperately needed housing is not a historic tragedy? Not just extremely cringe, the post also says that the new housing is "unaffordable to teachers and firefighters", implying that the current single family house that sold for $1.75M is affordable. In WHAT WORLD can teachers and firefighters afford $1-$2M Cambridge houses? The law of supply and demand still applies to housing, council member Zusy. We build more housing (even if you don't like it) and the prices go down. This has been shown again and again everywhere, while keeping single family houses in a dense city never worked for anyone. Cheers, Gleb Bahmutov
A picture of National Geographic history magazine.
Electric bike parked on the street photo
Cypress v15.14 change log announced TS v6 support
Environmental voter project cards about to be sent to Pennsylvania voters.
Electric bicycle parked on the street.
Cypress conference announcement has missing unicode characters.
This blog post is misleading. For example, "Cypress waits for elements to exist. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable." is plainly wrong, see https://docs.cypress.io/app/core-concepts/interacting-with-elements#Actionability Right after that: "The Expect Library" says that Pw "expect" more powerful, while giving examples of assertions that are either exactly the same or even shorter in Cypress. Plus Cypress assertions include Chai-jQuery and Sinon-Chai - things that PW simply cannot do out of the box (spy or stub application functions). Then you follow up with "Built-in Accessibility Testing" showing PW axe plugin. Guess what: cypress-a11y-report and cypress-axe do exactly the same thing! Cy cannot do API testing without plugins?! That is news to anyone using cy.request command, I guess. The "The Race Condition We Didn’t Know We Had" shows how you solved you Cypress flaky test in Pw ... by waiting for a slow network call. Hmm, could you do the same in Cy? Yes, you could. You could also simply increase the retry timeout on the page query command, in both test runners. Seems like your wrote a blog post that is widely off the mark. I agree that CI speed might be a factor. Guess what: human programming and debugging speed is much more important and expensive. Finally, a good decision would be to know both tools. I have open source workshop with all exercises where you can code the same thing using both test runners https://github.com/bahmutov/cypress-workshop-cy-vs-pw
Bike in front of very tall green hedge in England
More nonsense from Skeptic magazine.
Skeptic magazine article December 2025 criticizing scientific organizations that endorsed democratic politicians in 2024 elections.
I am wearing Kashima Antlers jersey.
Alan response
Reply letter.
4 approaches to confirming the app shows the result correctly.
anti housing letter published in Cambridge Day https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/10/24/compromise-on-zoning-wasnt-leadership/
Candidates for Cambridge City council endorsed by Cambridge Bike Safety group.
Cambridge MA voting ballots filled with candidates endorsed by the Cambridge bike safety political action committee.
Comment on a weird Cambridge day letter. Mostly sarcastic.
zion sherin opposes housing zoning.
Anti housing candidate Zion Sherin running for city council in Cambridge, MA. This is anti-housing letter published in Cambridge Day newspaper.
The economist article shilling for billionaires.
Phishing email trying to direct me to PayPal site.
Multiple bikes near a door.
Cypress dashboard showing the issue was successfully created.
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Harvard men soccer schedule with an error.
Part of the economist article blaming the progressives (unnamed) and Covid restrictions for George Floyd murder.
The economist article that is just silly nonsense about book censorship.
Taylor Lorenz praising how friendly Nazis are compared to DSA.
The economist magazine invited john bolton to say something stupid.
Gleb Bahmutov speaking at Testmu online testing conference.
Cambridge United in town U14 boys soccer team holding the Revolution 4v4 August tournament prizes for winning the final.
Windsor castle photo.
Peter griffin meme about skin colon with Ivy League professor reserved for light skin tones.
British airways website incorrectly showing that +1 phone area code is for Saint Maarten island for some reason.
Flat house roof painted with special ultra reflective white paint to keep cool in the summer.
Suspension from Nextdoor.
Stickers and buttons with “Vote Jivan”.
Cambridge Day letter from a NIMBY how Cambridge does not need any more housing.
New Yorker article “Tariff men” by Daniel Immerwahr.
Jd Vance account on blue sky was immediately in maga block list.
Nextdoor sent me account suspension notice.
Part of Cypress dashboard showing AI-generated E2E Cypress test summary.
Very positive comment on my YouTube videos.
Election 2024 results for Massachusetts.
Economist article about new surgeon general being insane.
Cartoon showing cars complaining about bus and bike lanes.
State of Devs survey question about favorite TV shows.
Conference application page with funny differently formatted dates.
The Economist magazine book review page.
Nextdoor account suspended note.