Taking a seat is for me means working with and collaborating, just like how we collaborate today within the team .
AI can automate many of the repetitive, predictable testing tasks, but testers remain the drivers — we define the problems, set the goals, validate results, and bring domain judgement, creativity, and ethics. AI is a tool; testers are the engineers, strategists, and governors that make the tool useful and safe.
“Taking the seat” here means I choose to lead, not compete.
As a QA Manager, I see AI not as a threat but as a partner. AI can generate tests, execute regressions, and accelerate automation, but it lacks context, empathy, and risk judgment.
Taking the seat means I define how AI fits into the QA strategy, validate its outputs, and ensure quality remains aligned with business goals and user value.
I focus on what AI cannot replace: critical thinking, domain expertise, ethical judgment, and accountability.
AI works with me, not instead of me.
Taking the seat” here means I choose to lead, not compete.
As a QA Manager, I see AI not as a threat but as a partner. AI can generate tests, execute regressions, and accelerate automation, but it lacks context, empathy, and risk judgment.
Taking the seat means I define how AI fits into the QA strategy, validate its outputs, and ensure quality remains aligned with business goals and user value.
I focus on what AI cannot replace: critical thinking, domain expertise, ethical judgment, and accountability.
AI works with me, not instead of me
Dhaval Mehta
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To me i.e. QA Lead role, ‘taking the seat’ means showing up with ownership, responsibility, and judgment rather than letting AI decide on my behalf. I will try to make AI work for me and NOT instead of me.
It’s about staying present, accountable, and creative in how I contribute, rather than giving away my influence.
Taking the seat means to me that I keep control of the decision, creation and outcome process of my work as a developer, having AI as a tool to o help with repetitive and simple tasks that doesn't require thought and decisions on what will be produced.
+3Upskilling isn’t optional anymore. It’s something we need at every stage of our career.
Here’s the thing: the way we work is changing fast. With agentic AI stepping in, we’re no longer just using tools—we’re collaborating with systems that can act, decide, and solve problems on their own.
That’s why upskilling matters:
It keeps you relevant when the tech keeps moving forward.
It helps you work smarter with AI instead of feeling replaced by it.
It gives you the confidence to lead, not just follow, in this new shift.
The future will belong to people who stay curious, keep learning, and know how to guide these AI systems instead of fearing them.
"Taking the seat" in the AI era means creating a big seat to accommodate both human and AI, where we work together rather than competing, allowing us to achieve much greater efficiency and speed in our professional and personal endeavors.
I feel AI is like when the car was invented and came into use - it initially created fear among horse and cow cart drivers, but once cars became part of human life, people were able to move from one place to another much faster.
To it means, upskill, embrace the inevitable, and adapt it. Make AI your ally and assistant, and don’t allow it to run over you.
To me ‘taking the seat at the table’ means actively shaping the future of my work alongside AI, rather than being sidelined by it.
In my role, it’s about leveraging AI to enhance decision-making, streamline processes, and focus on higher-impact tasks, while staying curious, ethical, and creative. It’s not about competing with AI :it’s about collaborating with it to amplify human potential.
AI still need Human perspective, so yes align and ride with it . Make it do all the menial tasks and free up time for exploratory tasks / creative tasks and innovative tasks. I will take the seat and let AI be my worker whom i supervise
For my role of a leader “taking the seat” mean, I will leverage AI’s speed in my leadership’s responsibilities whether it is decision making, setting up the directions, mentoring my team. However, I will definitely keeping and challenging the AI’s accuracy in mind instead of it deriving my decisions or way of work. Thanks!
Use AI for your advantage. Create more tools and automate some of the process that you work on now and take control of the seat.
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For me,
taking the seat means being more than just a tester of code,
I want to be the person who ensures that as we integrate AI into our workflows, we don’t lose sight of reliability, ethics, and user trust. I’m not giving my seat away to AI — I’m inviting it to sit beside me, so I can guide it with human judgment. My role isn’t shrinking; it’s evolving. And I’m ready to lead that evolution.
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Taking the seat means; actively shaping how AI fits into my role instead of passively giving decisions away to it.
For me, it’s about owning product quality, using AI to accelerate repetitive work while applying my human judgment in areas like strategy, risk assessment, and user empathy. It’s stepping up to guide the team, set guardrails, and ensure AI enhances rather than replaces expertise.
In short, it’s leading with accountability, not ceding control.
Think of AI as a very fast, clever assistant — not a decision-maker. Taking the seat means being the one who asks the good questions, judges answers, and accepts responsibility for the consequences.
+1For me, "taking the seat" means embracing the "Use, Question, Lead" playbook.
So, I'm not giving my seat away. I'm upgrading it. The chair is still mine, but it's now the captain's chair on the bridge, complete with a powerful AI co-pilot. "Taking my seat" means proving that a tester's true value isn't just finding bugs, but in orchestrating the entire quality conversation with wisdom and judgment that, for now, remains uniquely human.
I feel "Taking the seat" is replacing me at work.
It won't happen because I didn't make that when :
Automation tried to take my seat.
No code low code tools tried to take my seat.
Now it's AI turn, I won't give my seat to it, instead I ordered an assistant seat to AI. Sometimes I play musical chairs with AI🤣.
I won't let AI take my seat, as long as:
I can think testing beyond testcase.
I can analyse risks.
I can ask questions.
I can add value to the product by wearing customer's hat.
I am open for feedback.
I don't stop learning.
My brain works.
This question made me think about how my thought process was when I started using AI.
First, I started generating normal content which AI is famous for, then I shifted to creating test cases. I started this poc to show the world that it won't cover much, but to my surprise, it has written 40% well.
There, I questioned my thought process: Do you give the same prompt and ask a junior tester to write test cases without giving any context or project-specific test case structure? Inner me said no, then I modified the prompt, provided better context, and it did 85% well.
So it works, not for the complex but for the simple, medium scenarios and it can work well.
Started utilising it to debug issues, being careful to implement only what I can understand. It knows entire computer engineering, but once there is any error, you need to solve it.
Some agents can test and give results as well.
Some agents can develop and give an entire application.
Some agents can plan your entire travel and give you the tickets.
And there are real scenarios where Agents failed to fix what they developed.
AI can hallucinate. You can't deny that.
As of now, no one can take our seats, but if you can't upskill, reskill, and evolve very soon, it'll be replaced, and it's mostly by another human being, as of now.
Really hope it shouldn't be the agent replacing us. Always take the pilot seat, even when you're using Copilot. And as Brijesh said, if you can't embrace AI, someone will, and they can replace you.
Good job, everyone -
+5Thanks a ton for acknowledging and the reward
Though I am late, still wanted to share my insight.
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Taking the seat at the table, to me, means owning my expertise, leading with intent, and continuously evolving in a rapidly transforming landscape. With over 13 years in the industry, I’ve seen technologies shift, paradigms change — but what remains constant is the value of human judgment, creativity, and leadership.
AI is not a threat to my seat — it’s a powerful tool I choose to integrate, not surrender to. Taking the seat means I actively command my skills, stay curious, and upskill relentlessly. It means I lead conversations around AI adoption, not just follow them. I bring domain knowledge, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking to the table — things AI can support but not replace.
In my role, I see AI as an accelerator, not a replacement.
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