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.
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.