As a software quality assurance, the world is currently moving towards test automation, as well as integrating AI into testing. However, even as we are moving towards automation, many forget that manual testing is the fundamental of testing. Testing is not about checking off boxes (simply fulfilling acceptance criteria or executing test cases), it is about the user experience - how the user might use the product. Example: It's a gaming oriented product and I can't use it in "full screen exclusive" mode, which is the most optimized mode for gaming - it simply doesn't make sense. Testing is also a lot about thinking out of the box and trying to be a malicious actor in trying to break the application. Even as test automation and AI are on the rise, they are merely tools - and tools execute the will of its executor. Tools are merely a means to reduce our workload (in test automation, it reduces repetitive test cases, while in AI, it's an assistant in solving troublesome bugs in automation code). They do not replace the way testers think.