If someone you work with is making the following statement, “We don’t need to hire any more testers, we can do this all with AI!”, I may not know that person, but I can tell you a couple things about them…

– They are a deeply unserious – they clearly have not thought about or researched anything related to AI, software engineering, software quality, software testing or risk management.

– They don’t care about people – I have yet to see this “thinking out loud” BS not being used as a thin veneer to cover the age old question of “how do I get rid of all these people!”.

– They shouldn’t be responsible for anything to do with producing products that impact society – This is the kind of “blue sky” questions that to try to “challenge the status quo” with no regard whatsoever to the impact or harm caused to real people and end up “inventing” busses again.

As before, where the only “shifting left” was into vendors pockets from unsuspecting clients, you’re not dumb – you’re being misled.

And just to get in front of the “youreonlyprotectingyerjobs” AI fanboys – you’re goddamn right I am!

I care a LOT about the people testing software and systems every day, and I can tell immediately if you’ve never had to live with that responsibility.

Do better…