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Why Developers Don’t Fully Trust AI (Yet): The Gap Between Intelligence and Understanding

🧩 Introduction

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere — from writing code snippets to generating test cases, fixing bugs, and even suggesting architectural patterns. Developers use tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Tabnine every day to save time and effort. Yet, most developers will tell you — they still don’t fully trust AI.

Why? Because AI can follow instructions, but it doesn’t understand reality. It can tell you how to go to the fourth floor of a building — but if there are no stairs between the second and third, it won’t know you can’t get there.

This simple analogy reveals a deeper truth: AI doesn’t see, imagine, or reason like humans. It predicts. And that’s why developers treat AI as a helper, not a decision-maker.

⚙️ What AI Actually Does

AI doesn’t think; it calculates.

When you ask AI a question, it doesn’t know the answer — it predicts the most likely words that should come next based on patterns it has seen before.

For example:

🏢 If you ask, “How can I reach the fourth floor?”
AI might answer: “Take the stairs or elevator.”

But if your building doesn’t have stairs between the second and third floor, AI won’t know. It doesn’t understand the building; it only understands the pattern of what most buildings look like.

That’s how it works with code too. AI can predict what a “Login API test case” looks like because it has seen thousands of similar examples. But if your API has a custom authentication token logic or unique workflow, AI might fail completely.

🧠 Developers Trust Logic, Not Guesswork

Software developers — and QA engineers like us — live by logic. Every line of code has a reason, every test has an expected result.

AI, on the other hand, doesn’t explain why. It just gives you an answer that sounds right.

For instance:

  • AI might generate a test case for a “Forgot Password” function.
  • But it may miss verifying email token expiry time or invalid token reuse — things only a human tester would think of.

This lack of contextual reasoning makes developers cautious.

🎨 Creativity: The One Thing AI Still Can’t Imitate

AI can produce, but it can’t create.

When a developer faces a new problem — say, designing a unique caching strategy or optimizing load times under unusual network constraints — AI struggles because it depends on existing data.

Creativity isn’t about patterns. It’s about breaking patterns when they no longer work.

AI can paint you a picture using past images.
But it can’t imagine a world that doesn’t yet exist.

That’s what makes human developers irreplaceable.

🔍 Real-World Understanding vs. Pattern Prediction

Developers often deal with messy, real-world systems — bugs caused by hardware, network latency, human behavior, or even business politics.

AI doesn’t experience these things. It doesn’t “know” what a late-night production issue feels like. It can’t sense when something “looks off” in a UI or when an error message feels confusing to a user.

A QA engineer, on the other hand, can feel those gaps — because we understand the user.

That empathy and intuition are beyond any AI model’s reach right now.

🧪 Why QA Engineers Are Especially Careful

As QA professionals, our job is to find what others miss.
If we depend blindly on AI, we’ll miss the very things AI can’t see.

For example:

  • AI might mark a test as “passed” because it matches the expected output.
  • But a human tester notices the button color changed — a minor UI bug that affects usability.

AI doesn’t know what feels right; it only knows what looks correct statistically.

That’s why smart QA engineers use AI for speed — but keep human judgment for quality.

🧭 The Real Role of AI in Software Development

AI is not a replacement; it’s an enhancement.
It accelerates routine tasks, generates documentation, and helps you brainstorm.

But the responsibility — the final decision — must remain human.

Here’s how most experienced teams use AI safely:

  1. Code generation: AI drafts snippets; humans review and optimize.
  2. Test case creation: AI suggests scenarios; QA verifies coverage and adds edge cases.
  3. Bug triage: AI clusters similar issues; humans prioritize based on business impact.

It’s collaboration — not automation.

🧱 The “Fourth Floor” Lesson for Developers

Let’s go back to your building analogy.

Imagine AI as a smart assistant standing at the front gate. You ask, “How can I reach the fourth floor?”
It answers, “Take the stairs.”
But you know there’s no stairway from floor two to three.

If you blindly follow AI, you’ll get stuck.
If you think critically, you’ll redesign the staircase.

That’s the essence of why developers don’t fully trust AI — not because AI is wrong, but because AI doesn’t know when it’s wrong.

🌍 Conclusion: Trust Requires Understanding

AI is brilliant at prediction, not perception. It’s fast, but it lacks awareness.

Developers and testers thrive on logic, experience, and creativity — the very qualities AI can’t replicate.

The future isn’t about AI replacing developers; it’s about developers who know how to use AI wisely.

AI can help you reach the fourth floor faster — but only if you’ve already built the stairs.

How to setup selenium webdriver with c#

Set Up Visual Studio with Selenium WebDriver:

Create a new project in Visual Studio:

Step 1) In the File Menu, Click New > Project

Step 2) In the next screen

  1. Select the option ‘Visual C#’
  2. Click on Console App (.Net Framework)
  3. Enter name as “RnD”
  4. Click OK

Step 3) The below screen will be displayed once the project is successfully created.

Set up Visual Studio with Selenium WebDriver:

Step 1) Navigate to Project-> Manage NuGet Packages

Step 2) In the next screen

  1. Search for Selenium on the resultant screen
  2. Select the first search result
  3. Click on ‘Install’

Step 3) The below message will be displayed once the package is successfully installed

Steps to install NUnit Framework:

Step 1) Navigate to Project-> Manage NuGet Packages

Step 2) In the next window

  1. Search for NUnit
  2. Select the search result
  3. Click Install

Step 3) The below message will appear once the installation is complete.

Steps to download NUnit Test Adapter

Please note that the below steps work only for 32-bit machines. For 64-bit machines, you need to download the ‘NUnit3 Test Adapter’ by following the same process as mentioned below.

Step 1) Navigate to Project-> Manage NuGet Packages

Step 2) In the next window

  1. Search NUnitTestAdapter
  2. Click Search Result
  3. Click Install

Step 3) Once install is done you will see the following message

Steps to download Chrome Driver

Step 1) Navigate to Project-> Manage NuGet Packages

Step 2) In the next window

  1. Search for Chromdriver
  2. Select the search result
  3. Click Install

Step 3) System may asked for permission. Click on ‘Yes to All’

Step 4) The below message will appear once the installation is complete.

Selenium and NUnit framework:

Selenium with NUnit framework allows differentiating between various test classes. NUnit also allows using annotations such as SetUp, Test, and TearDown to perform actions before and after running the test.

NUnit framework can be integrated with Selenium by creating a NUnit test class and running the test class using NUnit framework.

The below are the steps needed to create and run a test class using NUnit framework.

Steps to create a NUnit Test class in Selenium:

Step 1) In the Solution Explorer, Right clicked on project > Add > Class

Step 2) Class creation window will appear

  1. Provide a name to the class
  2. Click on Add button

Step 3) The below screen will appear.

Step 4) Add the following code to the created class. Please note that you need to specify the location of ‘chromdriver.exe’ file during chrome driver initialization. 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;


using NUnit.Framework;
using NUnit.Framework.Interfaces;
using NUnit;

namespace RnD
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class TestDemo1
    {
        public IWebDriver driver;

        [SetUp]
        public void Initialize()
        {
            driver = new ChromeDriver();
        }

        [Test]
        public void BrowserTest()
        {
            driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.google.com/");
        }

        [TearDown]
        public void closeBrowser()
        {
            driver.Close();
        }
    }
}

Step 4) Click on ‘Build’ -> ‘Build Solution’ or keypress ‘Ctrl + Shift + B’

Step 5) Once the build is successful, we need to open the Test Explorer window. Click on Test -> Windows -> Test Explorer

Step 6) Test Explorer window opens with the list of available tests. Right-click on Test Explorer and select Run Selected Tests

Step 7) Selenium must open the browser with specified URL and close the browser. Test case status will be changed to ‘Pass’ on the Test Explorer window.