Agentic engineering is probably not helping since it tends to accelerate growth of LOC. I also personally think quality is an issue as well but it could be a skill issue on my end idk.
With the average run of the mill site, forums, the problem can be side loading scripts that are doing more than just providing a feature - while many sites eventually time out quickly on a problem script, a few would not ... my solution was to put a lot of POS script sites offering nice (read deep scrape for personal information or refusal of obvious baked BS) features in the deny list, many sites then worked without issue albeit with less features - but a few did not - then they too were added to my deny list.
"With agentic AI, there now no excuse to perform automated testing"
Two reactions:
1. What was the excuse before? That it wasn't worth it?
2. Assuming the statement is true: why does it feel like perceived software quality is going down?
My thought is that only a small fraction of people have cared about quality products. e.g. that's partly why Steve Jobs is lauded as such a visionary: b/c his obsession with quality and building ecosystems where everything fit together well.
