This is the correct take. QA was under attack the entire Agile(TM) cycle we just exited. Now with agentic coding, the only thing keeping it on the rails is TDD. Either you write the tests or you write the spec.

You are also responsible for the output. Welcome to the New Age. Management is just as clueless as they have ever been (some more than others) and yet most of them lack the intelligence to know exactly how it all works. Hell, there’s still plenty of engineers that don’t know how it all works.

Eventually, when you come to understanding or you reach that “enlightenment” stage, no corporate BS will penetrate you and you’ll forever see past their shenanigans. At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable. So they cut out anyone who knows the BS to bring in folks who believe the BS so they can continue shipping BS.

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JohnFen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I agree with most of what you said, but this...

> At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable.

isn't as true as people think. I'm a graybeard and remain very much in demand, as do the majority of the graybeards I know.

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reactordev 3 hours ago | parent [-]

YMMV but the vast majority of greybeards I know are unemployed or are doing other things than software engineering now.

	▲	JohnFen 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What I have noticed is that graybeards who work for SV-style companies are treated as disposable, incompetent, etc. But outside of that, things aren't as bad as people think, and most dev jobs aren't in those companies.

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gokuljs 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

True but for backend i just started building through TDD. this has helped a lot