Developers struggle with massive PR backlogs and insufficient quality assurance, leaving tech debt unchecked and eroding the middle class of software engineering. TestSage automates test plan creation, enforces systematic QA, and surfaces actionable debt reduction paths, empowering teams to deliver reliable code faster.
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Comment on: AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
To everyone complaining about "slop" and "+20000 PRs," what kind of systematic quality assurance, test plans, and tech debt reductions were you doing before the "LLMpocalypse?"Were you only relying on the difficulty of producing "working" from replacement skill/rate "software engineers" and their level of disinterest being the only real circuit breaker?
Developers struggle with massive PR backlogs and insufficient quality assurance, leaving tech debt unchecked and eroding the middle class of software engineering. TestSage automates test plan creation, enforces systematic QA, and surfaces actionable debt reduction paths, empowering teams to deliver reliable code faster.
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