{"id":184828,"date":"2024-03-10T04:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T09:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/thanks-to-ai-the-coder-is-no-longer-king-all-hail-the-qa-engineer"},"modified":"2024-03-10T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T09:23:55","slug":"thanks-to-ai-the-coder-is-no-longer-king-all-hail-the-qa-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/thanks-to-ai-the-coder-is-no-longer-king-all-hail-the-qa-engineer","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to AI, the coder is no longer king: All hail the QA engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thanks-to-ai-the-coder-is-no-longer-king-all-hail-the-qa-engineer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How will that situation change development teams? A common ratio of developers to testers is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prolifics-testing.com\/news\/optimal-tester-to-developer-ratios\">three to one<\/a>. At a big bank with 40,000 software engineers, 10,000 might do security, reliability, and quality control. But the AI effect is like squeezing a balloon so it expands on the other side. The coding productivity jump is offset by a dramatic increase in cycles spent on testing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Development Teams Can Get Ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For software teams, the pressure is on to adapt. Companies that want to stay ahead of the game should first get a handle on a long-time adversary: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90771120\/why-developer-experience-is-holding-back-the-pace-of-global-innovation\">toil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will that situation change development teams? A common ratio of developers to testers is three to one. At a big bank with 40,000 software engineers, 10,000 might do security, reliability, and quality control. But the AI effect is like squeezing a balloon so it expands on the other side. The coding productivity jump is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}