The Ghost Bugs: Why AI-Generated Code is a QA’s Greatest Nightmare (and Job Security) For the past couple of years, the tech world has been loudly repeating the same prediction: “AI is going to replace developers and QA engineers. Soon, software will write and test itself.” But now that we are well into 2026, we’re seeing a completely different reality play out on the ground. Yes, AI coding tools like Cursor, Copilot, and full-blown engineering agents have allowed teams to generate code at an absolute breakneck pace. But they’ve also created a massive, quiet crisis. Developers are using AI to pump out features faster than ever, but they are also shipping defects at a volume we’ve never seen before. Gartner recently dropped a staggering prediction: By 2028, prompt-to-app approaches will increase software defects by 2,500%, triggering a global software quality crisis. We aren't dealing with normal, obvious bugs anymore. We are dealing with Ghost Bugs . And for manual and hybrid ...
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