They’re just gonna lay them off.
And hire other people with the excess budget. Hell, depending on how badly these systems are implemented, you can end up with more staff supporting the testing system than you had doing the testing.
Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027
natecox@programming.dev 3 weeks agoConverting those roles to debuggers and active devs does a lot for both the business and the workforce.
Hahahahaha… on wait you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.
They’re just gonna lay them off.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
pixxelkick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The thing about QA is the work is truly endless.
If they can do their work more efficiently, they don’t get laid off.
It just means a better % of edge cases can get covered, even if you made QAs operate at 100x efficiency, they’d still have edge cases not getting covered.