87 karma · joined August 4, 2023
My first-hand experience at 2 large aerospace contractors is that QA resources have been a smaller and smaller portion of the contract budget.
The last companies I worked for had zero software QA. After two years of scraping together what I could, I eventually gave up.
This often breaks down into a practice where maintaining requirements is not given enough priority and in very short time the actual product has deviated from the documented requirements to the point where they're basically useless and there's no clear goal for any of the features.
Anyway, it creates the very problem you mentioned but just replace "road" with "outside the cockpit".
If AI does penetrate and become effective in my area, it's another tool. Just like you write less and less code as you achieve higher roles, you'll spend more time using AI rather than writing "raw" code.
One way or another, AI will become part of our jobs. To what level and when will greatly vary from industry to industry.
What an argument.