[MuffinFlavored]

I'm pretty sure I get paid to take everybody's collective best guess at what requirements should be (sometimes with way too many people involved giving their concerns/opinions, or just not being able to get anybody's attention and everybody rubber stamping it/half-assing it), put it in QA/CAT/UAT, let somebody else bang on it, then we all figure out in our effort to try to not miss anything, we missed a bunch of massive design flaws. Then we go back to the beginning or scramble to fix it really fast, and the whole design repeats itself.

At least that's what it feels like I get paid to do...

[uxcolumbo]

Ha, sounds familiar. I doubt AI will be able to automate that sophisticated process ;)

I suppose AI needs to be able to reason and we are still a long long time away from AGI according to experts.

Btw, what’s the CAT step?

[MuffinFlavored]

client accessible testing/user accessible testing

another environment before prod but not internal only so our “clients” can hit it for testing

[uxcolumbo]

Thanks. Where I've worked we only had Dev > QA > UAT > Prod - so not heard of CAT before.