Marc Brooker: Testing Is Going to Be the Most Important Thing

Marc Brooker, Is Systems Research Really Just About Making Numbers Bigger?:

I think it’s a point that generalizes way beyond systems research to the entire software industry: AI is going to be most effective in problem spaces where there are what the authors call reliable verifiers. Where, in effect, we can do automated hill climbing towards a low-ambiguity solution or Pareto frontier of solutions. Much of the next decade is going to be defined by finding better techniques to build these reliable verifiers where none existed before. If you’re a software engineer, what I’m saying here is testing is going to be the most important thing.