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Debbie O'Brien

Senior Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Applied AI @Block

Google GDE Former Microsoft MVP GitHub Star Alumni Nuxt Ambassador

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How I Use AI Agents + MCP to Fully Automate My Website's Content

How I use AI agents and MCP tools to automate publishing and updating podcasts, videos, and other content on my website.

January 14, 2026

First Two Years of Raising Kids and Working Fulltime

I now have two year old twins yet I also work fulltime and manage to raise my kids with no daycare or family help. Many people ask me how I do it and sometimes I even wonder myself! In this post, I want to share my experiences, challenges, and strategies for balancing work and parenthood over the past two years.

January 11, 2026

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Debugging My Zsh Config With Goose (and Why Agentic AI Actually Helped)

I've been playing around with a few things recently and wanted to share a real experience that genuinely surprised me. When Goose CLI wouldn't run, the agent investigated my .zshrc file and found a subtle syntax error that would have taken me much longer to debug manually.

December 15, 2025

Laid off from my dream job, what now?

It’s time to say goodbye. Unfortunately I have been the latest victim of layoffs due to reorgs in Microsoft Spain. I have taken some time to process but I won’t lie, It has been really hard to deal with. This wasn’t just a job. This was my dream. And my dream came true. But unfortunately all dreams must come to an end at some point. So what now?

December 10, 2025

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Testing in a Logged-In State with the Playwright MCP Browser Extension

If you've ever needed to test an application that requires authentication, you know the pain of logging in every time or, worse, handing over your credentials to an LLM. With the new Playwright MCP Browser Extension for Chrome and Edge, that's no longer necessary.

August 21, 2025

Automating Form Submissions with Playwright MCP and a Prompt file

Have you ever wished you could automate browser tasks — like filling out a form or uploading a file — without writing a full-blown test script? What if all you needed was a plain-text prompt written in natural language? Well now you can with Playwright's MCP server.

July 10, 2025

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Featured Podcast

Future of Testing | Debbie O'Brien on Playwright, MCP, and AI-Driven Testing

Recent Podcasts

Future of Testing | Debbie O'Brien on Playwright, MCP, and AI-Driven Testing

How to Test with Playwright - Debbie O'Brien

Recent Blog Posts

How I Use AI Agents + MCP to Fully Automate My Website's Content

First Two Years of Raising Kids and Working Fulltime

Debugging My Zsh Config With Goose (and Why Agentic AI Actually Helped)

Laid off from my dream job, what now?

Testing in a Logged-In State with the Playwright MCP Browser Extension

Automating Form Submissions with Playwright MCP and a Prompt file