[rajkumarsekar]

One big reason AI isn’t doing much beta testing yet is that it doesn’t use apps the way humans do. It doesn’t get confused, frustrated, or delighted by a clever UI. Most bugs that matter, like a button that’s in the wrong place, a flow that doesn’t make sense, or something that feels off, are things a human notices because they’re actually trying to do something with the app.

Also, training an AI to navigate and test every type of app takes serious setup. Every app works differently, and AI needs context: what’s the goal? what’s a normal result? what counts as broken? Without that, it just pokes around randomly or follows a script, not much better than traditional automation.

That said, we’re getting close. Some teams already use LLMs to write test cases or spot UI issues in screenshots. Give it a couple years, and you might actually see TestFlight bots pointing out bugs before users ever get there.