Post #1103586
2026-04-12 16:05 UTC
Published: Don’t Let AI Invert The Testing Pyramid
Lately, I encountered a specific article titled "Quality Engineering with AI". I have seen it shared with a dangerous level of enthusiasm within organisations.
To the untrained eye, the article appears to validate a so-called "modern" testing strategy; to anyone who understands software economics and the mechanics of software delivery, it is plain disconcerting.
https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2026/04/12/dont-let-ai-invert-the-testing-pyramid.html
Replies (2)
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@mrksdck@chaos.social 2026-04-14 09:34
@tdpauw thanks for writing this, gold. From my observation every change in the tool chain e.g. Spring boot, Test containers and now AI, people try to (near) only have e2e tests and somehow miss that it slows you down by a lot. IMHO Using Unit tests to guide your software design is an underdeveloped skill in these circumstances.
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@rhold@norden.social 2026-04-15 06:53
@tdpauw in my experience only a handful of people really understand the testing pyramid, what and where to mock in order to leverage unit tests etc. Useful automated tests require a lot of understanding and skill, which is often missing, and of course can't be delegated to LLMs.