in the “AI age” QA is automated :)

IMO the root cause has more to do with vendor lock-in, near monopolies, freemium/advertising models, etc.

The desperate wish to believe that AI is a silver bullet is fuel on a fire that was already going.

QA is the spouses of engineers. Management is a revolving door of the "smartest people" who are thinking about what to eat or their next job. Voices of reason get lost in the noise.

> QA is the spouses of engineers

I'm starting to doubt they use their own product at home.

I'm a Google engineer. I often don't even recommend our products.

I suspect most engineers at most companies, working behind the scenes to see the sausage being made, grow reservations about recommending it afterwards.

I say it as a matter of having eaten other sausages as well and discussing the various sausages with my peers (if I may extend the analogy).