news.ycombinator.com• 1d ago• 1 min read
Ask HN: How does manual QA fit into your process?We're seeing increasing efforts to improve developer cadence - LLM-improved auto-complete, agentic coding, agentic code review and agent-generated automated testing.So how does Manual QA still exist in your process? Is it a blocker on your release process? Are QA's being flooded with tickets? Does every ticket get QA'd or is it more of a high level pass?Or are you entirely reliant on automated testing to catch issues? What happens to manual QA in the short/long term?