What quality engineering has always been missing
In September, Anthropic’s CEO argued that AI companies should deliberately slow the pace at which they improve their models, because advances are outrunning researchers’ ability to understand and control them. Sam Altman endorsed the idea within hours, and other leaders of frontier AI labs quickly echoed him. For QE teams, the pace problem is already here. AI-generated change is arriving faster than anyone can review, and it isn’t arriving clean.