u/ketoloverfromunder

Outside of automated API test development (which AI is extemely good at generating), our toolkit from 2020 looks roughly the same in 2026. AI-driven tests eat tokens, are slower, and are more flaky than Playwright’s runtime-resolved locators.

Manual testing is becoming a bottleneck that leadership doesn’t want to hear about. The pile of tickets in the QA column seems to grow every day, to the point that manual testers physically cannot keep up.

We have decided to now only selectively QA certain tickets, mostly new features. Bug fixes are not QA’d unless critical. The devs are basically just prompting an AI opening a PR and putting all of the difficult work on QA. The "does it actually work right" seems to be our responsibility now.

How are other people’s teams keeping up with the piles of slop that keep getting dumped on them? My manual testers are getting burned out. My SDETs are feeling slow and useless. How are other organizations adapting?

Edit: to be clear, I am talking about QA of enterprise SaaS. Not a vibe coded website.

I see a ton of posts here asking about how to get users and why "Distribution" and "Marketing" are the ONLY things you're lacking.

I promise marketing isn't the problem for your worthless slop AI coded app that solves 0 problems.

You don't want to hear this but the real problem is your app is worthless. If youre a non-coder and your app was vibe coded in 3 weeks, that means a competent dev can vibe code it in a weekend or less.

Your LLM wrapper, calorie counter/workout tracker, lead generator, SEO optimizer, and AI marketing agent is absolutely worthless. No one will pay for it and rightfully so. If you wouldn't pay for your own app, why would anyone else?

The only successful SaaS i own is something I coded in 2021 and it is a niche app that solves a real problem shopify store owners had. I was the first customer of my app and I would have happily paid for it instead of coding it myself.

if your goal is to make money from your SaaS, unless you are willing to pay $100 for someone else SaaS solution to your problem, the world's best marketing team isn't going to sell your vibe coded slop.

Edit: just to be clear I'm not saying you CAN'T vibe coding something worthwhile and useful. I'm saying the thousands of posts about distribution being a problem, 99.999% of the time arent actually a problem with distribution