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opinion
Jul 15, 20268 mins
The first time I heard someone say their AI now wrote 80% of their tests, I asked the obvious question. Eighty percent of what?
After 20 years building and leading test automation for consumer-scale platforms, my honest answer turned out to be eighty percent of the typing, not eighty percent of the engineering. The remaining twenty was where the work still lived. Budgeting for two percent of leftover effort was the mistake. When the real number was closer to thirty, that gap was the difference between a pipeline that shipped and one that quietly built up a queue of half-trusted features nobody could rely on.
