Strategy eats tactics for breakfast
For a while now we have this shiny toy in our arsenal. We are using it to move faster than ever and we are building things that don't get deeply investigated, sometimes we really do not know what exactly has been done, it just seems good enough. Let's #YOLO that and see what happens.
My gut feeling says that we are facing a deeper systemic issue here that has started to implode here and there. Who has not seen or heard some of the AI horror stories, right.
So about me, I'm a paranoid QA. I double-check things. I ask uncomfortable questions. I'm the person in the room who won't let "it works on my machine" just slide. I will get to the bottom of it.
Thanks to that my gut feeling kept nagging me. and it finally clicked. We're not dealing with an AI problem. We're dealing with a systems problem that AI just made visible.
From what I have seen thus far - Many AI solutions are particularly tactical. My coworkers keep pointing out that I tend to go strategic instead. And I feel this is one of the approaches where Quality Assurance and Requirements Engineering can seize the high ground, to balance the pacing and bring true value.
So - when it comes to strategy, there is no better teacher than Sun Tzu. Let's explore his teachings and shape them into a battle guide applicable to us. Because AI doesn't create new enemies. It perfects the oldest one: the illusion that everything is fine.