Urša in profile, looking right, with a dark bob, red lipstick and thin gold glasses, in front of a grey leaf-print wall
fig. 1 — the subject under test

Urša
Kačar

I’m still not quite sure who or what I want to be. At work I build software with AI; in my free time I swim, play taiko and put my life into words on Instagram and my blog, Blebet. I like oysters and dirty martinis.

Work

I started out as a QA engineer and spent years digging through the guts of software, hunting down even the tiniest bugs. Along the way I drifted into management and led my own team for quite a few years. Later I left that behind and turned to automation.

These days I build software with AI, and it turns out that’s a perfect fit for someone with a QA brain. Years of clear bug reports, exact steps to reproduce and expected vs. actual are exactly what an AI needs to build the right thing. I still ask “but what if the user does this?”, just to a different colleague.

Writing

I’ve written since ever, and seriously for the past few years. Most of it happens on Instagram, in the moment: diary entries, poems, tarot and whatever is on my mind that day. Longer pieces and essays live on Blebet.

I write about the things that are easier to put down than to say out loud. Sometimes that’s an essay, sometimes a poem, sometimes just a page from a notebook. All of it in Slovenian.

Hobbies

Known issues

#IssueStatus
#001I start more drafts than I finishwon’t fix
#002I’m afraid of parallel parkingopen
#003I close my eyes in every photo, and on every carouselcan’t reproduce
#004I’m renovating a house that will never be donein progress
#005I go to the cinema, bars and dinner on my ownworks on my machine
#006I still keep a handwritten diarywon’t fix (legacy)
#007Too many hobbies, not enough timefeature

Say hi

Like my writing or my work? Have something on your mind? Maybe some feedback, or an idea for a project we could work on together? I’m always up for a collaboration, especially a slightly odd one.

hello@ursakacar.com

Urša smiling with her chin in her hands behind a huge platter of oysters, under a painting of an oyster
fig. 2 — when I said I like oysters, I meant it