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> for decades

We haven’t. QA has been part of the process but only one stage of the process mentioned above. How do cheaper non engineers decide if you’ve designed and implemented your query planner, payments gateway, auth, caching strategy, or other similar features correctly?

P.s I don’t doubt that incompetent orgs would do this incorrectly but it’s not sensible to take that as norm.

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That's just implementation detail - no engineer is going to be checking the agent's code for all this.
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It seems accountability is dead. No wonder it's impossible to get a job or hire for one. Once you're inside some of them, you must be nigh invincible.
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Easy to have this attitude when it’s other people’s time and money.
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Indeed. The purpose of AI is to enable shareholders to reduce headcount, including (especially) engineering.
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Sure, this’s their wet dream and selling dreams and wishes is nothing new. But how’s that working out? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50463899
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