What 50+ QA Automation Interviews Taught Me About Flaky Tests

<h2> The Asymmetry of Change: Why Your Tests Are Looking the Wrong Way </h2> <p>A passing build is often treated as a certificate of correctness. In reality, it's a narrow

<p>Snap just announced that AI agents generate over 65% of their new code. The same week, they laid off roughly 1,000 employees — 16% of their workforce. CEO Evan Spiegel shared

<p>Debugging a browser-based E2E test is fundamentally harder than debugging a unit or component test.</p> <p>With unit tests, failures are usually deterministic and isolated. You

<p>A frontend can look stable while becoming much harder to test.</p> <p>The main user journey may still work. The login button is clickable, the checkout completes, and the

<p>While exploring AI-assisted testing, I started thinking more about what actually happens when a test breaks. Tools like mabl, Testim, and Functionize are approaching

<p>Web testing has become a lot harder to describe in one sentence.</p> <p>It used to be easier to say, “We run some Selenium tests,” or “We use Cypress for frontend testing.”</p>

<h2> What Happened </h2> <p>I pay $200/month for Anthropic's highest individual tier — Max 20x. I use Claude Code (their CLI tool) daily with a team of AI agents for building

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