How Building an AI Testing System Changed My Role as a QA Engineer

I think I accidentally tried to replace my own job with AI Not even kidding. I was just trying to improve our API testing setup. You know, the usual stuff - make test generation easier, reduce manual work, maybe use a bit of AI here and there. Then it slowly escalated. Instead of just generating tests, I thought: “what if AI can also understand the API?” Then: “ok… what if it can suggest improvements?” Then: “what if it can actually implement those improvements?” At some point I realized I wasn’t building a tool anymore. I was building something that behaves like a small engineering team.