The Engineering Mindset That aI Didn’t Replace

Looking back, I do not think AI changed the direction of my career. It arrived after that direction had already been set. Every week brings another comparison of coding models, another prediction about which engineering role will disappear, and another list of tools we are all supposed to learn. Some of those articles are useful, but they rarely describe the change I experienced, because it began long before I opened an LLM chat window.

For years, I explained my path as a sequence of roles: QA engineer, automation engineer, technical expert, leader, architect. The labels now feel less important than the questions I was asking. First: How do I find this bug? Then: How do I automate this check? Later: Why is this process so expensive? Why are several teams losing time in the same place? Could we change the product so this problem does not need another test at...

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