[VenturingVole]

Strongly inclined to agree here: Having recently joined a small applied AI startup and we were discussing the need for E2E tests. My initial gut reaction (which I kept quiet) was that such things turn into unmaintainable messes which delay releases and increasingly reduce in value.

I recognised this was grounded in an entirely different world of software engineering and organisation size though. I followed a path of thinking about what went wrong historically and how might they be solved: Better structure, discipline, resources - all of the things which agentic AI facilitates.

You are right about most skipping this part: But I view it as being like a sewerage and sanitation system - largely invisible and not thought about but critical for long-term health.

Also this ties in very nicely with Netflix's approach to Chaos Engineering and enabling it at broader scale.

[throwup238]

> You are right about most skipping this part: But I view it as being like a sewerage and sanitation system - largely invisible and not thought about but critical for long-term health.

And like sewage and sanitation the infrastructure is a lot more complicated than people think.

I’m curious what happens when they need to make a DRU of Stripe or another payment processor.