Clarity & Quality Assured Booth Hosting (Day 1): Why I'm Nobody's Make-A-Wish

Written By Kelly K

I won a contest to get a free ticket to this event in a nearby city. And now, with the subway expansion, I am basically neighbors with this city hahah. Just sit on the train, 1 hour later, boom! There. It used to be a multiste process and now it’s amazing. So, we’re off to learn more about quality? I’m not sure what this event even is about - tech and quality? But it will be amazing, plenty to learn - AND they offered me a free booth. So this event lasts two days. I want to attend some speeches and then man my booth with the rest of the time.

Why Attend: This should be awesome cause it’ll be lots of parents (hopefully) who want their kids to take my classes. Plus, we’ll try out hosting a booth again and see how that goes. And, of course, I can learn more about building with quality and AI. :)

Photo Collage and Commentary

Notes From the Event

When I got there, I set up my table and then got some breakfast. A guy from Malaysia came and sat with me to explain what this conference is about (quality assurance), and it stunned me that this industry exists. The fact that people are hired to check the quality of things. Though it makes sense. He said it kicked of in the 1940s in the auto industry. A guy tried to propose it to car companies here in America, but they didn’t take him seriously, so he went to propose this idea in Japan, and they did take him seriously, and that’s part of why companies like Toyota are such huge successes. Cause they build high-quality products and they have been for a long time. America does it now, too - but not as high of a priority.

  • This guy also ended up showing me his hobby, which is cutting paper snowflakes. That started after the Sandy Hook shooting, when they asked people to cut paper snowflakes and send them to the school to make the kids happy when they returned. (btw Sandy Hook is a topic I’m more of an… - I know this is controversial - Alex Jones about that than not. But I’ve seen a lot of things questioning it - even NOW in 2026. Like how a lot of the pictures were likely AI-generated (but were the videos saying that fake?) I don’t know. Alex Jones has been right about a lot over the years, from what I’ve seen. Not always, of course!!! But they work hard to discredit him. But we don’t need to get into it. I just feel so much news and media is so staged and mega-layered. And manipulated. But who knows? Just wanted to say it)

  • Also, some of his art was amazing - but some was like the devil and bamophat, which I’m just so confused why people enjoy celebrating the devil/bamophat. The being that literally eats kids and drinks blood and just brings pain as a norm. Like, “suffering” is your thing? I don’t get it. So… idk. I’m just kinda into the opposite of that stuff. Like, celebration, relief and recovery, healing and peace.

After that, I went back to my table and met my table-neighbor, who was SUPER amazing. She’s a coach for businesses, relationships, AND DANCING. She was an amazing listener and speaker. She gave amazing feedback and advice the entire day, whenever we talked, and we got into a lot throughout the day - I was surprised.

  • Actually, the first guy to come up to us was from Florida. He was talking all about my fairy tales, and then he got into how giants are real; they were real. They’re in the bible. And how much of our culture has things that are said to be “fantasy,” but they’re probably not.

    • I love it - he was like a 60-year-old, country-club-looking man.

    • I love how much culture is changing lately, little by little, and people are looking more into alternative history, realizing the truth about the Illuminati, so many things. It’s not all just “crazy conspiracist” anymore. That propaganda and labeling. It’s actually researched and documented, but not pushed in our faces like the textbook’s stories and mainstream media are.

  • At first, a lot of people came up to my table who turned out to have no kids or older kids, but later, many people came by who are interested in my classes and want to sign up their kids for group classes or maybe even one-to-one business coaching with me :)

Then I went and attended an event for AI and founders, only cause the last event I went to for founders wasn’t up to speed with my intelligence, expectations, and levels, so I wanted to see how this one was.

Okay, this guy starts talking and says: the questions we’re probably thinking - what is this guy up to? Is he going to give a demo? 

  • You’ll be disappointed; this is not a demo (hahaha). I’ll bring up foundational pieces in this chaotic world of AI in a positive way.  And bring in experiences I’ve seen over the course of my entire journey as a software engineer, leading to an entrepreneur.

This guy says it’s his first ever time giving a talk on this (maybe his first talk ever) so I cheer for him

He does what he believes in, and it’s why he started the company.  He has helped companies scale and optimize Software QA, staging, and Automation solutions.

  • A lot of what he’s talking about, I don’t get - so I’m multitasking till it starts to catch on

3 things that will make you successful no matter what you’re doing.  It’s valid and relevant in today’s world:

1. Clarity and Intent:

  • Do you have clarity on what you’re testing or automating?  And the “why” behind it?

    • Ask yourself why you are using your agents.  What purpose? 

    • Do you have clarity in your mind of why you’re doing what you do?

    • Why automate a certain set of tests versus not the certain set

  • This sounds JUST like a talk I heard before, ALSO in this same city. They said clarity is SO IMPORTANT.  

  • He says he’s a direct victim of being unclear.  Where are his things going? 

  • If you are clear, you’ll get clear results.  If you’re unclear, it’ll be chaotic.

  • AI amplifies what you already have

  • If tools vanish tomorrow, what’s your manual process?

  • Do you have a playbook that moves from State A to State B?

  • Which test cases give the most bang for the buck?

  • Get the fundamentals right BEFORE the tool

This guy is a good presenter.  He speaks clearly (and I think English isn’t his first language) - so often people aren’t good speakers on stage.

Your training has built something, a sheet, but what are the metrics you’re trying to drive?   Why track what you’re tracking?

  • Client onboarding?  

  • Do you even know what you need to feed in there?

2. Adoption, Playbooks, and Scale: You built it… Now, where do the time savings actually go?

  • Adoption and Scale: adoption isn’t deployment.  Scale isn’t adoption.  Focus on meaning usage across the organization

  • Are your teams working in silos?  

    • I love that he asked this question. So many silos in so many industires - often very intentional so that people dont’ connect dots or realize what they’re actually doing (like with finance and medical industires)

  • Is one team doing the same thing as another?  Are they all going their separate ways in the name of efficiency?

  • What’s your plan for scale?  You are investing a million dollars in your AI credits, getting all the teams together.  Learn more things

    • How do you track how the credits are being used?

    • What team is using what?

    • A repeatable cycle?  How do you deal with these scenarios?

  • Team. Reinvestment: identify which teams are utilizing the tools and tack where the newly freed-up time is being reinvested

  • Measure Time Savings: move beyond anecdotal evidence.  Quantify the actual time savings to validate the ROI of your initiatives

  • Organized Prompt

3. Economics, SLA, Scorecards: what number on your quarterly or annual plan move, and by when?

  • Are you getting better day by day?  Are you just playing around to kinda get something, or are you actually building a repeatable process or system that can be handed from one team to another?

  • Before: high cycle time, high escape rate

  • After: reduce cycle time and Lowe escapes

  • Prove your value with scorecards

  • The world says that “AI changes everything,” but by what measure?
    Define success criteria BEFORE you spend a dollar

    • Love it

  • Real Metrics: cycle time, coverage, escape rate, cost per test

  • A great resource vs a not so great resource?  The only different is how are the two resources using AI?  

    • But your foundations have to be clearly met and there has to be ownership given and someone has to keep these things in place and even as the individuals contributes, we have to focus on individuals on a daily basis.  Then take it forward.

  • I’m loving this guy’s speech.  Maybe cause he set the bar low, too. But I literally am loving it.  

    • Organize your testing - the problem: test, requirements, and dev live in separate tools.  But some tools can provide native test management INSIDE (ira?), enabling full traceability from requirements to execution with comprehensive coverage and metrics.  

Okay now he’s just talking about his company.  He can optimize your licenses and help test and bring in clarity with playbooks.  Build scorecards.  

  • Wow, and his presentation ends early!!! You literally never ever see this.  

  • He is so cool.  Good speech and good use of time. 

Now this guy is answering Q&A.  But I’m distracted by the guy who is letting me join his event next week with a complimentary ticket - he’s asking what my blog for his event will be about.  LOL idk!!! The event will reveal itself. I never know what my blogs will be about until after - right? Like the other dy when my friend had his fundraising dinner for his congress position - and I wrote about how trump-voters align with hiim way more than he relizes. I had no clue that’s what this would be abut. Even this blog… still comign together hahah. That’s my style.

  • During lunch, I sat with some people. They worked for BCG.  I wanted to learn more about their mindsets, their company… if they realize its one of hte most destructive (but secret about it) companies on Earth - thoguh also I didn’t want ot sy that outright. Not today :)

  • One was from literally boston, another from Costa Rica. The Boston guy is 2 years off of alcohol - woo hoo! goo djob. He said he’s not really too into his work but its not bad nad it pays well. (Just makes me think, i’m so glad i love my work… even though it’s not paying well YET - i’d never ever trade it for just about anything I can think of… maybe like teaming up with one of my favorite leaders ever/CEOs, then I’d maybe make some changes… but besides that, I LOVE what I dooooo!!!!)

  • One guy said, for his job, “if we do our job right.  You’ll never know we were there.”

Later, I went back to my table and I met a woman who works at Pokemon!!

  • we agreed that basically everyone likes pokemon, even me, even her. lol :). They have a local office, but not Pokemon stores here in the USA, though they do around Asia.

  • I didn’t directly bring up GameStop, but we did talk about how the value of pokemon cards is going crazy lately. How its fun for parents to play with their kids. And how resellers are going NUTS lately.

She said that Pokémon recently bought a hugely-popular card-distributing company so they can better handle resellers who are dominating the market and making it unfair for everyone. 

  • I remember hearing something about this.  But pokemon cards are a huge reason why GameStop had its best quarter in their entire history just this past quarter.  Maybe they’ll do it again and again!!! :)

The woman in the booth next to me - she and I keep hyping up each other’s businesses.  I keep telling everyone: do you dance?  Do you wanna dance?  She’s your girl!!! You don’t like dancing? Even better!! You’re her favorite kind of client!!

The next speech (after lunch) 

  • I’m a bit late in here.  

  • He said his company asked him how to QA a vending machine in his interview. He took one hour to write down three and a half pages.

    • LOL would you even know where to start with this??? Not me AT ALL - i mean, what? Make sure the prices are right? the temperature?

81.64% of AI failures were based on hallucinations.

  • 47% of AI answers are factually correct (Stanford HAI)

0.8% of medical questions were refused by AI (BMJ Open, 2026)

  • 97.6% of issues are found after deployment

Fluent and confident does not equal correct.  We are trying to figure out how much we depend on AI versus how much we (idk ourselves)
- I can fail a lot and it does catastrophically. 

You can literally go in and code.  I’ve never coded in my life. I never went to college, I don’t have a degree, but now I can just code something. IDK anything about the mechanics, but I can do that at face value.  But I’m not accounting for the correction and confidence behind it.  Is it actually valuable as it goes out to the universe to do this? 

  • You have a lot to worry about. 

Output accuracy & intent resolution: no info provided about X or its membership lans when details are availed on teh official support site

  • Misinformation and Hallucination: inaccurate tech specifications and missing file limits provided for Y Ads when querying AI assistant.

You have to revalue to understand the cultural significance with AI.  There’s still a lot of work to be able to be done here to navigate that.

  • Data privacy is huge in terms of how AI is handling that.  There’s a lot ingested for AI to learn.  IT’s going to take info, to take UI and it’ll train the model and expose us in ways we never wanted to be exposed. 

There are YouTube videos teaching vibe coding.  Other software, a doctor put all the patients’ info within the model, then it exposed everyone.

  • A medical professional saw a video and learned vibe coding that said anyone can build it

  • She had all the patient data, everything was unencrypted, and exposed to the open internet.  A horror story.

Images made by AI are one of the biggest things.  You used to be able to ask Grok to remove people’s clothes.  

  • Mainstream media picked up on a lot of these satires. 

  • Who is responsible for this?  The company? Or the user?  

So what is AI responsible for? 

  • A woman came and sat next to me, she’s super late.  Took a pic of the event.  And she’s got A LOT of perfume on.  But it smells good 

    • Though I read. A study that most men actually are more attracted to women’s natural scents, or the scent of vanilla + cinnamon, more than perfumes. 

    • Perfumes are kinda more for yourself. 

  • The future of testing is HUMANS AND AI working together.  

This talk is not for me.  I may walk out in the middle of it - now - and go back to my table.  

This guy presenting says his husband works for an insurance company.  

  • OMG the guy next to me is a guy I think I’ve met before.  A few times. I’m surprised he’s here… he’s evertywhere! (and so am I hahah) He’s from China and coaches people, but also we’ve had random talks? Idk.  But yeah, I wanna go back to my booth and leave this talk.

Then back at my booth I just hung out.

WOW one guy stopped by and gave me the idea to do a contest but then have EVERYONE WIN HAHAHhahahahah it’s so genius.  Then I can mail everyone their thing - send them a sticker and a book - it’ll not cost too much. Hahahahah this is so smart. I can make the envelope cute.  This is so smart.

The coaching woman next to me in my booth and I ended up talking so much.  Even about the Epstein files, the weird event where I heard people talking about blood drinking, how babies are being trafficked, so much stuff. 

  • We talked about how sometimes, when you know this information, you feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world, and you’re all alone.  She felt this way, realizing a huge amount of her community was addicted to alcohol or drugs, so she had to change her entire circle.

    • Also, how so much of my work and classes are meant to counter-act this. Empower kids. Rewriting Fairy Tables so its not just kids or main characters getting eaten in the end or scared and running in fear. 

  • It’s just nice to be able to talk about this stuff aloud. And turns out a LOT of people are on the same page, it’s just only finally becoming permissible to say outloud and/or news is finally spreading.

I’ts super nice to spend time talking to people, being yourself, and relating over thing and trying to be empowered.  

Okay, we’re invited to go into the big room cause the day is almost over.

  • Now is the closing celebrations and raffle.  

There’s a LinkedIn challenge - how many engagements can you get on your innovative post?  20 - 30 engagements..  You can win an Amazon gift certificate.  

  • She says there is a social event later today…

I’m so exhausted - I’ve been prepping/part of this event for 10 hours straight, so I don’t want to type anymore <3

AFTER-EVENT SOCIAL

My night (first half) ended at the social.  The venue was a colorful, youth-inspired 21+ bar with a video game vibe + putt putt. I saw a theory about how the only place you really see fun stuff like this is places that encourage alcohol. Like you go work corporate like crazy, but then the places for adults that look most like colorful, whisicle preschool, daycare, kindergarten, childhood - they’re places where you go get drunk (bars, clubs, etc)… I can’t shake that realization and think it’s a shame.

I had fun talking to a few people.  We got deep in the weeds of conspiracies, again, about aliens, greys, blood-drinking elites, life’s purpose, media’s control, how movies reveal truths about society (and some movies get shadow-banned), and much more.  I talked about how I work to fight it all and create media nad content pushing back.

  • I had fun talking to a number of people, but also recently heard this phrase (especially about how to respect yourself and have boundaries) that “this isn’t make-a-wish”.  You’re not Make-a-Wish™ for other people (except on rare occasions).

    • “You are not Make-A-Wish™. You are not an investor. It’s not your job to fix people.”

  • But don’t act out of sympathy.  Don’t give out more of your energy than you want.  Protect your energy and respect your boundaries.  So, eventually I got tired of talking to people (and then got a great update that more kids signed up for my classes), so I just signed off from socializing and started working on my computer till most everyone left.  

  • Lately, I’m listening to “Greedy” on repeat (as I said in my last blog)

    • So… it’s really what I’m trying to embody.  The confidence and self-assurance and high standards and reality that I’m a lot to keep up with - in a fine/good way, and I wanna keep sprinting, and I won’t slow down for others.  Keep up or keep on with your life.  No need to make others feel good just for the heck of it.  Just to try and make them feel better.  Focus on yourself.  And keep building (but also I want to be kind - but not make-a-wish and not acting out of pity towards grown married men.  Or single men.  Or kinda anyone, except kids who are being trafficked, etc.  I fight for them.)

  • And also, I’m learning to be more comfortable in being honest (still not fully there yet). Even if it’s not exactly what people want to hear. But trying more and more each day. Just all the time, especially, I hear people talk shit about the current administration or say some things are wrong or whatever -they voice opinions I don’t agree with fully. But sometimes I don’t push back. Though, I did see a video the other day about a girl who just doesn’t even both to engage in arguments because they’re a waste of her energy hahah. She just goes unbothered and moves on. Keeps doing her things :)

So, I’ve decided to take myself to social dancing at one of my favorite venues.  I’ll go dance with random people and have so much fun in my AMAZING dress - looking amazing.  And just have fun!! :) celebrate myself.  

And even on my way to the lite rail, a random guy said to me: If that outfit isn’t springtime, I don’t know what is! 

  • Hahah, even though I’m pretty sure it’s summer now, but this is great.  I’m totally embodying happiness and confidence!!

  • This is good and cool and crazy.  For so long, I’ve just been struggling and fighting and misunderstood.  SO much of my life has been insecure, chasing.  Now I’m starting to really get the hang of being confident, calm, letting others come to me, being a flower, and being patient.  

  • Even lately, my BBBYQ/Ryan Cohen loving guy, Pulte, is in the White House in a super high-up position!! I love seeing it all come togehter.  I believe that we’re winnign this fight - the bbbyq community, the peopel fighting for market transparency, child trafficking transparency, fighting for whats right - and for me, I’ve just been sticking to my perspective even while everyone says I’m crazy or “too much” - but maybe things are catching up to me a bit, as I keep sprinting.  

Kelly K
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