Maslow's Hammer and Three Lies QA Tells Itself
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QA professionals at conferences are anxious about AI's impact on their roles, and three common reassurances — a golden age is coming, SDLC will collapse without testers, or nothing will really change — are all flawed. The 'golden age' view ignores AI's transformative effect on team structures, not just code velocity. The 'SDLC will crumble' argument overstates QA's singular importance while ignoring systematic quality mechanisms like linters, unit tests, and observability tools. The 'nothing will change' stance is anti-intellectual and contradicts the critical thinking QA professionals claim to value. The real path forward is for QA to evolve into a multidisciplinary engineering role: building quality systems, creating automated feedback loops, collaborating as enablers rather than gatekeepers, and using AI to scale quality alongside code velocity.
