QA Cosmos

Every few years, the software industry finds a new buzzword and immediately declares that manual testing is dead. We heard it when Selenium first blew up. We heard it when CI/CD pipelines became the norm. And now, with AI coding agents and self-healing tools everywhere, the same old narrative is back: "Why hire manual QA when an AI can just click through the app for you?" If you’ve been in QA for more than five minutes, you already know the answer isn’t that simple. AI isn't going to kill off manual testing. But it is going to change what we do every day—and if your entire job relies on blindly following a static, step-by-step test case spreadsheet, that's where things get risky. What AI Is Actually Good At (The Boring Stuff) Let’s give credit where it’s due: AI is great at doing the tedious work nobody actually wants to do. Dumb, repetitive regression: Running the same 50 form checks across three browsers every single release. Churning out test data: Gener...