There’s a dangerous myth circulating in the QA industry: that any AI is good AI.
Tool vendors are racing to slap on “AI” features—copilots, agents, test case creators—all in an effort to look modern. But beneath the flashy UI and prompt-driven wizardry is a hard truth: these tools are actually slowing down experienced QA professionals.
And there’s now research showing many AI tools are reducing productivity.
When AI Hurts More Than It Helps
A recent study from METR (see https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/) found that experienced developers performed worse when assisted by AI compared to when they worked solo. The AI introduced subtle inefficiencies, errors, and gaps that had to be cleaned up manually—nullifying any perceived gains.
The same is true in software testing. Many of today’s so-called AI-powered QA tools don’t eliminate work. They move it around—and often create more of it.
We know because we also looked at these Ai features and walked away from them as flashy with no proven (or possible) cost savings. And who will pay for tools that increase cost? No one.
Copilots in recorders that let you “type your next step” instead of clicking? 2X slower than clicking. Why double your labor cost? Agents that generate test ideas from requirements? Often vague or misaligned and always miss key areas. The labor required to find thjose gaps…longer than doing it right with critical thinking the first time. AI that tries to “help” by suggesting partial test cases? Great—until a senior QA engineer has to stop, reverse engineer the logic, and patch the gaps.
It’s smoke and mirrors unless you measure real productivity.
Appvance Didn’t Add AI for Show. We Built AI That Delivers.
At Appvance, we rejected the shallow AI hype. We didn’t add a copilot just to say we have one. We didn’t bolt on a chat prompt to feel trendy.
Instead, we focused on brutal, measurable labor elimination.
- AISG (AI Script Generation) autonomously creates thousands of NEW test cases and scripts by learning your application and business rules—without a single click or line of code.
- GENI™ ingests your existing English test cases and converts them into real automated scripts—no recorder, no manual scripting, no editing required. No human present.
The result? Our clients routinely report up to 100X productivity gains. Not 100%. 100 times faster. That’s what happens when you eliminate the bottlenecks, not dress them up.
Productivity Is Math—Not Magic
It’s easy to get excited by a flashy AI overlay. It’s harder to stop and ask:
Is this actually reducing work? Is this increasing application coverage? Is this finding more bugs?
If the answers aren’t backed by metrics, you’re not gaining—you’re being distracted.
AISG and GENI don’t “assist” testers—they replace tedious, manual work outright. They expand coverage, find bugs no one else can, and give experienced QA engineers time to focus on strategy, not syntax.
The Bottom Line
The AI revolution in QA is here—but it’s not about copilots or chatbots. It’s about results.
Measure everything. If your “AI assistant” can’t produce test coverage you can quantify, or is slowing down your best engineers, it’s not innovation. It’s inefficiency in disguise.
At Appvance, we didn’t just build AI. We built the AI that delivers application coverage and productivity and labor reduction. Not an arguable…but a knowable.
See how AIQ helps you ship confidently and stay out of the headlines. Request a demo to discover how AIQ can revolutionize your testing process today!
