Now what? If the robots can do my job, what do I do?

Themes: AI | Quality | Testing | Team

AI is changing how software gets built. Code generation is accelerating. Agents are writing tests, opening pull requests and shipping changes at a pace that would have seemed absurd 2 years ago. 

The conversation in the industry is moving fast, and for the people in your team whose job is to figure out whether the software actually works, it's creating a genuine crisis.

Not a theoretical one. A personal one.

This talk is about what that crisis looks like from the inside.

If you manage, lead, or work alongside anyone in a quality or testing role, this talk will help you understand what they're grappling with and why it matters to the whole team. If you're in that role yourself, this talk is for you.

Participant takeaways:

• competing with AI on test script generation is a losing game 
• competing with AI on understanding complex systems, identifying risk and explaining failure is where durable human value lives
• the biggest challenge isn’t a skills gap - it’s an identity shift from operating in service of someone else’s product to using your own judgement about what’s worth building