A new era for software testing

Automatic programming dramatically speeds up writing software in certain use cases and in the right hands. In my experience the output does not reach the structural quality and economy of complexity of the best hand-written software. However, not all the software is stellar, and my feeling is that automatic programming surpasses most of the times (and if well managed) the quality of decently written hand-written code. So, there is a tradeoff between quality and time, in the case of writing new software. This tradeoff in certain projects I developed can be brutal, that is, completing projects that may take many months in a few weeks. However, there are domains where LLMs simply open new strictly more powerful ways to automate processes. One of those domains is software QA and testing. Traditionally software is tested using test suites that are composed of locally-scoped tests and integration tests (think of Redis: one thing is testing if SET foo 10 will be matched by GET foo => 10,…