I promise this isn’t going to become an AI blog, but Marty Cagan’s latest on Preparing For The Future has some solid points on how generative AI might change our profession. Here he talks about the impact on QA:

The new generation of AI-based test automation tools has the promise to revolutionize our approach to ensuring the product is behaving properly. On the other hand, our current approach to quality is largely based on deterministic products.  This means that given a set of inputs we can predict what the appropriate output should be, and we can count on that being true indefinitely.  

Yet for many new products built on generative AI, our products are no longer deterministic, but rather probabilistic.  We can no longer count on the same inputs generating the same outputs.  For many contexts, this is not a problem.  But for other contexts, especially when safety is involved, this will require different approaches to ensure appropriate behavior.

Also, yes please:

For those product managers of empowered product teams, the time spent creating artifacts such as written narratives, roadmaps, PRD’s, and acceptance criteria, as just a few examples, should be significantly assisted by the new generation of tools, some of which are already starting to appear. Even at the very rudimentary level, if the new generation of tools can significantly reduce the time a product manager (or engineer) spends dealing with tools like Jira, that will be a substantial win.