Code without caution: AI's path to the next digital disaster

TestHeads is back with a thought-provoking remote talk with Leigh Rathbone, Head of Quality Engineering at CAVU. Leigh will share some controversial ideas that are sure to spark lively discussion!
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About Leigh Rathbone
Leigh has been in tech for 26 years, covering many different roles with that period, across 14 different companies, working on 4 continents. Leigh's passion is leading and coaching others to succeed and be our next group of tech leaders. Leigh is a family man, married for 21 years with two adult kids, and supports Aston Villa. His heritage and bloodline is from Dublin itself, with his mom born on Gardiner Street Upper in 1947.

'Code without caution: AI's path to the next digital disaster' talk details
This talk is controversial - and there is no mention of Terminator or AI taking your jobs, think we are all fatigued by those messages. This talk combines many impactful messages and stories. I am going to predict the future – and I’m hoping I’m very wrong about that future. Those of you who have been attending Test Heads for some time may have seen my talk 5 years ago trying to predict the future. Well, here I am again, with a different take.

I start with the prediction, which is "Code Without Care or Quality: AI's Path to the Next Digital Disaster": The rate of code entering live and reaching our customers will be at such a fast rate that there could be a disaster. I talk about the swings we've seen in the last 26 years within tech around focus on certain roles and trends (testers in early 1998 - 1999, then Project managers, then Engineers etc etc etc), and then where that focus might be after a disaster, or in fact where it needs to be to avert disaster.

I also cover the different roles I feel all companies need to consider, which one of them is an AI Glue Work type person (QE).

Take aways:
• An insight into a different take on how we progress to adopting AI in the next 5 years
• The swings of focus on different roles in the past 26 years, and where the focus will be if we head to this disaster
• Roles we need in AI in order to avert the disaster
• What YOU can do tomorrow in work to avert disaster