22.8Interview Talking Point

"The industry converged on three things faster than most people predicted: WebDriver BiDi as the protocol, CLI skills as the agent interface — Microsoft shipping --skills on the Playwright CLI settled that — and LLM reasoning as the intelligence layer, now productized as Playwright's planner, generator, and healer agents. The open frontier I'm watching is persistent application memory: agents still rediscover the app every session, and whoever ships a reliable app-map — Vibium's Cortex is the clearest public design — changes the economics of exploratory testing. Our role is evolving from writing tests to architecting the AI systems that generate, execute, and maintain them — and to testing the AI systems our own products ship, which is where evals come in."